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3TS holds first close for Fund IV
Growth fund has a EUR 150m target and expects to announce its first investment shortly
KKR drops out of Zooplus race
Hellman & Friedman increased its take-private offer to EUR 3.29bn earlier this week
Allianz holds EUR 500m first close for debut private debt fund
Fund-of-funds marks the first time that the firm has opened its strategy to institutional investors
Langholm winds up remaining assets in Verdane sale
Sale of WoolOvers, Purity Soft Drinks and Lumene sees Langholm wind up its remaining assets
Sovereign acquires Aquitaine Group, makes two bolt-ons
Add-ons are part of the private trust and corporate services provider's consolidation strategy
Oakley invests USD 35m in Seedtag
Deal sees Oakley acquire a minority stake in the business
Accel leads USD 140m round for CommerceTools
Series C follows the company's USD 145m funding round in 2019, which was led by Insight Venture Partners
Pictet holds USD 350m final close for Technology Fund
GP intends to launch a healthcare- and biotech-focused thematic fund in early 2022
Valuations rising as food & beverage whets PE's appetite
Within the space of a year, average pricing in the space has increased by 2.2 turns of EBITDA, research by Clearwater and Unquote shows
Nordic Capital invests in Qred
Small business lending platform is the third investment from the GP's Evolution Fund
H&F increases Zooplus take-private offer
Increase from EUR 3bn to EUR 3.29bn follows competing takeover interest from EQT and KKR
CVC acquires secondaries specialist Glendower Capital
Strategic partnership comes four years after Glendower completed a spin-off from Deutsche Bank
Mobeus sells VCT business to Gresham House
Mobeus intends to focus on its UK small-cap buyouts business, including raising Mobeus Fund V
Aeternum et al. invest in Hg's Visma at EUR 16bn EV
Deal sees Aeternum Capital, Government Pension Fund Norway (Folketrygdfondet), Vind and GIC invest
DBAG eyes Italian B2B industrials, services deals via local subsidiary
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG has established a Milan office, hiring Giovanni Revoltella as partner
KKR fully exits SoftwareOne
KKR took 25% in the company in 2015; it listed in 2019 and now has a CHF 4bn (EUR 3.6bn) market cap
EQT Ventures gears up for third fund
Fund registration comes less than two years after the final close of its EUR 660m predecessor
Revaia closes debut fund on EUR 250m
Formerly known as Gaia Capital Partners, the firm was founded by Elina Berrebi, Alice Albizzati
HIG closes Europe Middle Market fund on EUR 2bn
GP's first mid-market fund was launched in September 2020, according to Unquote Data
Jolt Capital holds EUR 271m final close for fourth fund
Fund surpassed its EUR 250m target and is more than three times larger than its EUR 83m predecessor
Carlyle backs European strategies with ESG facility
Credit facility is linked to targets such as board diversity and greenhouse gas emissions monitoring
Triton appoints Paun as head of sustainable investing
Ashim Paun joins from HSBC Global Research and will assist with both investments and capital raising
PAI buys European Camping Group from Carlyle et al.
SBO reportedly values the camping holiday site operator in the EUR 700m-730m range
DBAG opens Milan office, hires Revoltella
DBAG can invest a total of up to EUR 300m in equity in Italian companies from its EUR 1.1bn DBAG VIII fund