The £32.3m fund will invest in Cambridge-based technology companies looking for first round funding.
Apax, InnovaFrance and Cambridge Gateway invest in Travelprice, Delta Caps and Antenova.
Martin Block has just joined Mercury as director of leveraged buyouts but has been working in Germany for three years. Here, he gives PEO the inside track on what to expect from the much-vaunted tax reform in 2002.
The law firm has made up four new partners for its private equity business.
Duke Street today prices Europe’s largest arbitrage CDO fund.
A new company, to be called RVC, and headed by the Greenhouse Fund's co-chief executives, will manage Reuters' corporate venturing fund as well as launch its own new fund.
BC Partners buys the ceramics company for E908m in what could be Scandinavia’s biggest ever public-to-private deal.
Epartners has given back its e-money. The firm has decided it cannot invest $520m of the $650m fund it raised for internet companies last July and will return it to investors including Morgan Stanley and Softbank.
The fund, jointly owned by Atle and six Swedish pension funds, has now committed all the capital at its disposal.
High yield is to play an important role in the refinancing of Messer Griesheim’s LBO from Aventis earlier this year.