The vehicle will focus on investments in retail, property, leisure and high risk technology companies.
Private equity advisor Argos Soditic has taken a 45 per cent stake in chemicals company Italmatch for an investment of approximately E25m.
The company had been planning a restructuring which would have meant further investment and a conversion of bank debt, lease obligations and accrued interest equity in the company.
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The California Public Employees' Retirement System also has an option to invest another $435m over the next two years.
Telecoms software company ECT will use the capital on product development and expansion into additional European markets, including Scandinavia and Spain.
Venture capital was the top-performing sector over the last 10 years across the whole of the investment trust industry in the UK.
Baring Vostok Private Equity Partners returns to Eastern Europe with the first direct investment fund since the 1998 crisis.
The investment firm wants to focus all resources on Medicover, its largest holding.
Usually not shy to take on tough deals, bidder Alchemy is put off by Baird’s debt provisions.