Articles by Greg Gille
LDC takes minority stake in RIBA commercial arm NBS
Investor injects £31.8m for a minority stake in RIBA Enterprises, which trades as NBS
Apposite Capital closes Healthcare Fund II on £144.5m
Healthcare-focused Apposite seeks to deploy £10-20m over the life of an investment
Video: Mandarin's Inna Gehrt on DACH opportunities
Inna Gehrt, partner and head of DACH at Mandarin, explores why the region is viewed as an LP magnet
Video: Triton's Marcus Brans on operational expertise
Triton's Marcus Brans discusses the most important way that investors can add value to companies
Tenzing's Smoothwall makes first bolt-on with Future Digital
Lower-mid-market investor bought the Leeds-based web filtering technology provider last year
Downing et al. in £4m series-A for CTT
Downing invests alongside existing investors Parkwalk, Cambridge Enterprise and Amadeus
Idinvest et al. inject $15m into Biomodex
Funding round is led by Idinvest Partners and InnovAllianz, with previous backers returning
VC-backed Azimo raises further $20m
Corporate venture player Rakuten Capital leads the investment again, alongside a host of backers
Blackfin sells Owliance to Tessi
Financial-services-focused GP backed the insurance business process outsourcing service in 2010
Idinvest boosts growth capital team with new hire
Guillaume Santamaria joins as investment director in Idinvest's Growth Capital team
Keensight, Eres acquire Biovian
Keensight and Edmond de Rothschild Equity Strategies funds buy the Finnish CDMO
BC Partners launches real estate arm
Stéphane Theuriau, former CEO of Altarea Cogedim, is hired as managing partner
Japan Post Bank targets $76.5bn alternatives portfolio
More than JPY 2tn ($18bn) of the portfolio will be allocated to private equity
Calpers formalises direct investment strategy
Largest US public pension plan announces the creation of a new entity to make direct investments
NorthEdge hires two new portfolio directors
Keven Parker has experience from 3i, while Andy Tupholme previously worked at Gresham
Activa's Mecadaq acquires US-based Hirschler Manufacturing
Mecadaq gets additional funding injection from Activa to buy the hard-metal machining business
Turenne Capital announces raft of hires
French GP hires an investment director, two analysts and two chargés d'affaires
France Fundraising Report 2018
The first quarter of 2018 has set the tone for what is likely to be a busy year for fundraising in the region
Ardian nets $800m for US infrastructure fund
Fundraising was completed in less than six months, according to Ardian
Aberdeen Standard buys fund finance outfit Hark Capital
New York's Hark Capital supplies loans to mid-life and end-of-life PE and VC vehicles
VC-backed iZettle gearing up for IPO
Card payment business posts strong gross profit but EBITDA is still negative
Better Capital extends 2009 fund term
BECAP Fund will now run to the end of 2019, with a further one-year extension possible
Keensight-backed Pixid buys Carerix
Keensight invested in Pixid, a French online management system for temporary work, in 2015
Activa's Alliance Etiquettes bolts on Irisgraphic
Labels business Irisgraphic is the seventh add-on since Activa's investment in 2015