Benelux

Back to the future

As the private equity market waived a welcome goodbye to a difficult 2008, unquote" spoke to five industry professionals to get their views on what could be in store in the coming year; in terms of dealflow, fundraising, debt availability and the increasing...

Some sunny day...

Following a near barren second half of 2008, which saw an almost complete drying up of debt financing amidst a collapse in the global banking sector, buyout houses will now be looking optimistically to the year ahead. However, it may be some time before...

Q&A: Weathering the 'perfect storm'

Following an almost doubling of activity in the German small- and mid-cap segment January and September 2008, the financial crisis finally began to take its toll on the space in the final quarter. Mareen Goebel speaks with Andreas Schober , vice-chairman...

Evolving infrastructure

In recent years the amount of capital being raised for dedicated infrastructure funds has risen substantially and the sector has emerged into a major new area for investment. With raising and deploying capital in the traditional LBO market becoming increasingly...

EUROPE - Final quarter records lowest deal value for a decade

Though it will come as no surprise that private equity investment in Europe dropped considerably in the final quarter of 2008, the scale of the decline just might; with deal value sliding 59% against the preceding three months from around EUR 20bn to...