Robert Venes
Providence Equity Partners has reportedly completed its third European telecoms deal in a fortnight, buying its co-owners’ stakes in the German cable TV operator.
The London office of law firm Allen & Overy has lured private equity partner Derek Baird from rival Lovells.
The Swiss-headquartered investment firm has already received over $100 million in commitments for the new fund.
The Middle Eastern private equity firm is in talks with European investors for its second fund, which will target hospitals in the MENA region.
The global bank has made a move into private equity fund administration with the launch of a private equity platform.
The European arm of Vestar Capital Partners has acquired a wood flooring joint venture from Nordic Capital and a Swiss forest products company.
3i’s French growth capital team has invested in a publisher of online real estate directories.
Alberto Morano, a private equity lawyer in Italy for the past 15 years, is to head up SJ Berwin’s new Italian offices.
The poor marketing of some VCTs shouldn’t be allowed to tarnish the image of a valuable source of enterprise capital, says SJ Berwin’s Simon Witney.
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