Investments

LP caution hits life science investments

Universities can be a safe environment to raise funds and develop ideas. But it looks like university clusters are losing their pull factors in the eye of diminishing returns to investors...

unquote | 31 Jan 2012
LP caution hits life science investments
Growth funding: is it all downhill from here?

Growth funding: is it all downhill from here?

Expansion and early-stage deal numbers declined steadily in Q3 2011, leaving the industry expecting a grim final quarter of the year. Anneken Tappe reports

unquote | 07 Dec 2011 | secure
Buyouts surge in Q2

Buyouts surge in Q2

The private equity market is back in black, with deal values at their highest level since the heady days of 2007, according to the latest unquote” Private Equity Barometer, done in association...

unquote | 14 Jul 2011 | secure
Corporate buyers: Stealing the deal?

Corporate buyers: Stealing the deal?

Private equity funds have been sitting on significant dry powder recently, which has led to a recent surge in deal activity and a return of higher multiples. However, as corporates have...

unquote | 24 Jun 2011 | secure
Q&A: The role of funds-of-funds

Q&A: The role of funds-of-funds

Emanuel Eftimiu talks to Tim Creed, executive director and head of Adveq’s European investment programme, about the relevance of fund-of-funds in today's market, the future of large-cap...

unquote | 22 Jun 2011 | secure

Accent and Ahlström merge portfolio companies

Accent Equity and Ahlström Capital have merged their investments in the packaging industry to form Arch Packaging Group AB.

Nordic unquote | 16 Jun 2011 | secure
Business Growth Fund 'ticks the boxes'

Business Growth Fund 'ticks the boxes'

Will the latest government effort to support SMEs work?

unquote | 19 May 2011 | secure
Private equity market contracts as larger buyouts remain sparse

Private equity market contracts as larger buyouts remain sparse

The European private equity market shrunk to its lowest quarterly total in a year as transactions at the top end of the value spectrum remain conspicuous by their absence, according to...

unquote | 20 Apr 2011

European Buyout Review 2011

European Buyout Review is the premier reference resource for private equity investors, advisers and leveraged financiers in Europe. For over two decades, it has tracked the rising and falling......

unquote | 01 Apr 2011
Quantifying alpha

Quantifying alpha

Alpha does indeed exist, and is strongest in private equity deals with active ownership; particularly when frequent interaction with - and even changing of - management is involved.

unquote | 10 Mar 2011 | secure

Dunedin acquires CitySprint

Dunedin Capital Partners has acquired courier business CitySprint from various private shareholders.

UK unquote | 08 Dec 2010 | secure

Neuhaus Partners backs online company

Neuhaus Partners has participated in the first round of financing for Hamburg-based online firm Content Fleet GmbH.

DACH unquote | 18 Nov 2010 | secure

unquote" UK Watch

In its regular quarterly commentary on UK private equity investment activity, Corbett Keeling gives a practitioner's view of trends in the number, value and financing of deals. Click to......

unquote | 08 Oct 2010
Private equity and football: A poor match

Private equity and football: A poor match

The recently reported interest by Italian private equity house Clessidra for Serie A heavyweight AS Roma will come as a surprise to many – especially those that question whether the private...

unquote | 10 Sep 2010
Matrix boosts placement team

Matrix boosts placement team

The investment banking division of Matrix Group has hired Vincenzo Narciso as a partner in its London-based private funds group.

UK unquote | 09 Sep 2010 | secure
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Southern Europe unquote" February 2012

Spain calls them mileuristas, temporary workers earning at most €1,000 per month. In Italy they are the precari, so-called due to...

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Nordic unquote" February 2012

In the unquote” Nordic Private Equity Index only 4% of respondents believe that the Eurozone crisis will have a major impact on...

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France unquote” February 2012

French buyout house PAI partners has confirmed it is aiming to raise a £3bn fund this year – potentially staging a comeback following...

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UK & Ireland unquote” February 2012

With changes to the Takeover Code only just starting to bed in within the UK, Labour leader Ed Miliband has already suggested additional...

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Benelux unquote” November/December 2011

Secondary buyouts will dominate the market for the foreseeable future, say 47% of respondents to a Grant Thornton survey. It is...

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Deutsche unquote” November/December 2011

Around two fifths of GPs believe that their next fund will be larger than the current one, according to research from Investec.

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Regional barometer 2011

unquote" Regional mid-market barometer

The latest unquote" Regional mid-market barometer, produced in association with LDC, shows both volume and value recovered in 2010...

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European Buyout Review 2011

European Buyout Review is the premier reference resource for private equity investors, advisers and leveraged financiers in Europe.......

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Nordic unquote” Private Equity Index 60-second survey

Halfway through 2011 the Nordic private equity market has remained on its recovery path with improving macro indicators and healthier...

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unquote" Private Equity Barometer - Q4 2010

Preliminary figures released today in the Q4 2010 unquote" Private Equity Barometer (published by unquote" and sponsored by Candover...

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South Africa Report 2011

unquote” South Africa Report 2011

The latest unquote" South Africa Report is now available to download. This year’s edition looks at the prevailing trends in the...

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UK activity dips in final quarter

The UK private equity market dipped in the final quarter of 2010, despite widespread optimism, according to the latest unquote”...

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