Benelux
Caution ... is key
Director of private equity at SVG Advisers, Sam Robinson, speaks on LPs' decreased appetite for risk and the need to make vehicles more efficient in this economic climate. By Sam Robinson, SVG Advisers.
Jockeying for position
A private equity landscape in subsidence, a barren fundraising market and stateside-kickback scandals: placement agents are having to change their modus operandi. By Ashley Wassall
Essent Milieu auction scrapped
It is understood that Essent has decided against the sale of its waste management division, Essent Milieu, stating that the offers were too low.
Domino effect
It was two years ago this summer that the repercussions of financial engineering first started reverberating through the system. It has been a protracted process. The long-awaited wave of defaults is starting to take shape, with levels doubling in Q1...
Regulating away from trouble
Francinia Protti-Alvarez talks to Ad van den Ouweland of Robeco about LP/GP relationships and the role that responsible investment principles can play in private equity's future
NETHERLANDS - Updata invests $12.5m in RES Software
Updata Partners has backed RES Software, an Amsterdam-based provider of user workspace management software, with an investment of $12.5m.
EUROPE - NB Private Equity lists on SFM
Euronext-listed NB Private Equity Partners (formerly Lehman Brothers Private Equity) has announced the admission of its class A ordinary shares to the Specialist Fund Market (SFM) of the London Stock Exchange, effective this morning.
BELGIUM - Candover to sell Ontex
Candover is reportedly looking to sell Ontex, a Belgium-based nappy producer valued at around EUR 950m.
EUROPE - EVCA task force calls for EUR 1bn threshold
Two months on from the launch of the European Commission's proposed Alternative Investment Fund Manangers (AIFM) Directive, the EVCA Brussels Task Force has published its formal response, which calls for an increased in the minimum qualifying threshold...