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Legal challenges

In the last two weeks, I have had the opportunity to talk to a lot of lawyers active in the UK or in the DACH region. The stories from UK lawyers are uniformly grim, while their DACH-based colleagues are more positive for the moment, though they expect...

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GERMANY - Nova exits nuclitec GmbH

Direct secondaries specialist Nova Capital Management has sold German radioactive products supplier nuclitec GmbH, along with its French and US based sister companies nuclitec sarl and nuclitec Inc, in a trade sale to Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen-und Medizintechnik...

EUROPE - McCreevy remains vague about PE regulation

According to reports, EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy still has reservations about regulating private equity firms, despite heavy pressure from MEPs and earlier promises made by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso.

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...

SWITZERLAND - Ventizz founds management consulting company

German venture investor Ventizz Capital Partners has established a new management consulting unit in Switzerland, Ventizz Management Consulting AG, which will be led by Guido Bollue and will focus exclusively on the firm's portfolio companies.

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...