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GERMANY - HTGF et al. backs United Maps
High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital and SpaceTec Capital Partners have made an undisclosed investment into cartography start-up United Maps GmbH.
AUSTRIA - Gilde Buy Out Partners acquires Powerlines
Gilde Buy Out Partners has agreed to acquire technical infrastructure services company Powerlines Group in a secondary buyout from Invest Equity for an undisclosed amount.
The value of 'fair value'
Private equity firms are facing a difficult and potentially painful year-end accounting process as they adapt to the increasing requirements of fair value reporting, but there could be rewards in store for those that meet the challenge. By Ashley Wassall...
The wheel turns...
With pressure mounting on both GPs and LPs alike as the post-crunch economic decline stagnates the primary market, the cycle seems once more to have turned in favour of secondaries players. Ashley Wassall reports.
How to Pick Winners
Despite the age-old adage that backing sound management is paramount, a new study reveals that people are less important than the product.
Movers and shakers
Despite the current economic turmoil and subsequent downturn in deal activity, several areas of the private equity industry have witnessed a recruitment boom in the last month. Is this a sign of better things to come? Ashley Wassall reports.
GERMANY/UK - Riverside-backed Sage makes fourth acquisition
Riverside Company-backed international communications company Sage Holdings has acquired Capital Precision, a UK-based provider of capital markets intelligence.
GERMANY - ATS et al. invest EUR 65m into GANYMED
ATS Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH has participated in a EUR 65m financing round for biopharmaceutical company GANYMED Pharmaceuticals AG, alongside Future Capital AG, MIG Verwaltungs AG, and private investors.
GERMANY - BayernLB Private Equity backs MBO of RSA
BayernLB Private Equity has backed the management buyout of industrial machinery company RSA Entgrat- u Trenn-Systeme GmbH & Co KG.
GERMANY - bm-t backs DJTUNES
bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen GmbH, alongside business angel Professor Dr Karlheinz Brandenburg, has backed music portal DJTUNES.COM with an undsiclosed investment.
EUROPE - Antin Infrastructure Partners launch announced
Antin Infrastructure Partners, a new fund management business focusing on the infrastructure space and affiliate of BNP Paribas Asset Management, announced its launch this morning at a briefing in London.
UK/GERMANY - Latham & Watkins elects 30 new partners
Latham & Watkins has elected 28 associates and two counsels to partnership, effective 1 January 2009.
GERMANY - MIT takes stake in TB&C
MIT Munich Industrial Technologies AG, via its Gulf One Buchanan Industrial Technologies Fund, has acquired a 25.1% stake in components manufacturer TB&C Outsert Center GmbH.
GERMANY - Target leads EUR 3m investment into Ubitexx
Target Partners has made the first investment from its second fund, Target Partners Fund II; leading a EUR 3m funding round for software developer Ubitexx GmbH, alongside incumbent backers BayBG and KfW.
GERMANY - S-Refit AG leads EUR 3m ACEOS funding
S-Refit AG has led a EUR 3m investment into medical sensors company ACEOS GmbH, alongside medTECH Capital Fonds, S-Refit EFRE Fonds Bayern, KfW and Bayern Kapital.
EUROPE - Duke Street appoints partner
European mid-market buyout house Duke Street has appointed Miles Cresswell-Turner as a partner specialising in Financial Services.
EUROPE - CVCs remain optimistic
Corporate Venture Capitalists (CVCs) remain optimistic about investment activity in Europe according to a survey published by Ernst & Young, with respondents anticipating that Europe will be the second most important market globally over the next 24 months,...
EUROPE – Robeco lauches "responsible" PE fund-of-funds
Fund manager Robeco, a unit of Rabobank, has launched its second тresponsibleт private equity fund-of-funds with a EUR 250m target.
GERMANY - Index Ventures in EUR 15m be2.com funding
Index Ventures Growth Fund, alongside business angels, has raised a series-B funding round for global matchmaking site be2.com.
GERMANY - Palamon invests in DS Produkte
Palamon Capital Partners has agreed to invest in DS Produkte, a supplier of fast moving consumer products.
GERMANY – HTGF and Seedfonds Bayern back Corrmoran
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Seedfonds Bayern have invested an undisclosed sum into Corrmoran GmbH, a developer of corrosion monitoring systems for large combustion plants.
GERMANY - PEPPERMINT leads EUR 3.9m JADO funding
PEPPERMINT Financial Partners has led a EUR 3.9m series-B funding round for biotechnology company JADO Technologies GmbH.
GERMANY - SHS and KfW invest in c-LEcta GmbH
SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement and KfW have invested an undisclosed sum into biotechnology company c-LEcta GmbH as part of a capital increase.
GLOBAL - BNY Mellon launches private equity fund admin service
The Bank of New York Mellon's Alternative Investment Service is launching a private equity servicing platform.