Toby Mitchenall
Toby Mitchenall is the Senior Editor, ESG and Sustainability, at PEI Media. He is responsible for New Private Markets, a dedicated intelligence source on impact investing, sustainability and ESG in private markets, and is based in PEI’s London office. Toby was previously a consultant advising private equity firms on marketing and public relations.
The former European Acquisition Capital partner joins Palamon to focus on the UK.
The ratings agency Fitch has revised the outlook on Bité, Mid Europa’s Baltic mobile operator, following slower than expected growth in the Lithuanian market.
The French alternatives firm has smashed its initial fundraising target of €300m against a difficult market backdrop, a week after selling a stake in the management company to Spanish firm N+1.
The UK Government’s emerging markets fund of funds has made commitments to four Chinese funds. It expects these funds to go on to raise a total of $1.7bn from other sources for investment in the region.
The Fortune 500 alternatives firm has made changes to its management line up, including the promotion of former Norwest Equity Partners’ Stephen Burge to president.
Media and communications specialist Providence Equity Partners has boosted its investment in cable company Volia to $300m, the largest private equity investment in the country to date. SigmaBleyzer first funded Volia in 1999.