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Ventech holds first close on €140m
Ventech will stick to its strategy of investing in early-stage European companies
Evoco leads €21m round for ReBuy
Headway Capital Partners and Keyhaven Capital Partners also take part in the financing
Headway targets first close in early Q2
Headway registered the vehicle, Headway Investment Partners IV (HIP IV), in February 2017
Paragon buys Unicepta
Company's management has retained a minority stake and will remain in control of strategy
Hughes Armstrong-backed Davy Markham goes into administration
Yasmin Bhikha and John Lowe of FRP Advisory were appointed joint administrators on 26 February
VC firms invest $4m in Senic
Manufacturer of building systems technology Gira also takes part in the financing
LP direct investment: straight to the source
Limited partners are striking out on their own to source their investments directly, with numeorus new strategies emerging
Horizons co-leads $15m funding round for Owlstone
Aviva Ventures co-led the round, which also saw investment from existing investors
TSG buys minority stake in Zoeva Cosmetics
GP filed its intention to acquire a stake in the company with the German competition authority in January
Perusa to launch third fund
Perusa Partners II held a final close on €207m in November 2011 and is deployed across 10 deals
Macquarie hires Intel Capital's Jorgensen
Jorgensen will support Macquarie's infrastructure technology and growth capital initiatives
ECM buys Albrecht & Dill
Previous owner and extended management team will acquire a minority stake in the new company
Capiton buys Ispin
Ispin's management team and co-founders Marco Marchesi and Stefan Napflin also invest
VC firms in €22m round for Foodspring
Corporate venture division of New Zealand-based dairy exporter Fonterra also took part
SwanCap holds final close on €433m
Fund will invest in primaries, direct co-investments and secondaries in Europe and North America
DPE buys VTU Engineering
Founding shareholders, including board member Michael Koncar, retain a significant minority stake
Deals accelerate in German online marketplaces
Three transactions in the space within the first two months of 2018 saw PE firms invest a combined €500m and cash out more than €700m
Equistone-backed Gala Kerzen buys Ramesh Flowers
Deal is the first bolt-on acquisition for the Munich-based candlemaker since its buyout in 2016
Cerberus- and JC Flowers-led consortium acquires HSH Nordbank
Non-performing loans valued at approximately €7bn will be acquired by the consortium separately
Haspa BGM, Schulz Systemtechnik buy Keil Anlagenbau
Haspa invests in buyouts and growth capital transactions for German mid-market companies
ECI-backed ATG buys Lot-tissimo
Combined group will host 18,000 auctions a year, with more than £2bn under the hammer
Cairngorm promotes two
Bayliss and Naylor-Leyland are both founding members of Cairngorm's investment team
Hg launches Saturn fund
Naming convention follows Hg's Mercury series, which targeted the small-cap space
HSH Nordbank sale to be decided on Wednesday
JC Flowers owns a 5.1% in the bank and 94.9% is held by states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein