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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
Perusa to launch third fund
Perusa Partners II held a final close on €207m in November 2011 and is deployed across 10 deals
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
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
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
Large-cap deals drive strong start to 2018 for European PE
GPs deploy an extra тЌ7bn in aggregate value across European buyouts in the first two months of the year compared to 2017
Pantheon aims for FTSE 250 as NAV per share rises
Pantheon also announces a share restructuring and the issue of a ТЃ200m asset-linked note
ECI-backed ATG buys Lot-tissimo
Combined group will host 18,000 auctions a year, with more than £2bn under the hammer
Draper Esprit invests in five seed funds
Managers include Berlin-based Join Capital and Helsinki-based Icebreaker
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
EQT VIII holds final close on €10.75bn hard-cap
New vehicle follows the Swedish GP's тЌ6.75bn seventh fund, which closed in August 2015
Capvis to close fifth fund on hard-cap
More than 80% of LPs reupped into the fourth fund, which closed on its €720m hard-cap in 2014
GA backs ProSiebenSat.1's Nucom
Oakley sells minority stakes in portfolio companies Parship and Verivox at a combined EV of €970m
IK closes Small Cap II Fund on €550m hard-cap
Including a GP commitment of тЌ50m, the fund closed on its тЌ550m hard-cap on 15 February
Agic, Capvis, Gilde, Nordic Capital in final Amann Girrbach round
Nordic Capital is reportedly the front-runner in the sale of the Austrian dental prosthetics company
Equistone sells E Winkemann to Cathay Capital
Equistone makes the divestment from its €1.5bn buyout fund Equistone Europe Partners IV
VC firms to sell Lendico to ING Diba
ING Diba has registered its intention to acquire Lendico with the competition authority
VC firms back $30m round for Relayr
Round is led by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, a corporate venturing arm with $1bn in AUM