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PPM German team in second acquisition
PPM Capital has signed ashare purchase agreement to acquire BST Safety Textiles, a leadingglobal manufacturer of fabrics for the automotive airbag segment as well asthe seatbelt and commercial webbing in North America, from Johann Berger.Combined equity...
Palamon boosts German team
Palamon Capital Partners has expanded its German investment team with two senior appointments. Dr Tom Sommerlate has been appointed to the firm’s board of advisors. Dr Sommerlate is chairman of Arthur D. Little’s management consulting activities...
German Equity Partners BV sells Spectro to Ametek
ECM has advised a consortium of institutional investors led by German Equity Partners BV in thesale of Spectro to the American publicly quoted Ametek Inc.
German locusts and all that...
Franz Müntfering, chairman of Germany’s social democratic party, recently sensationally declared that private equity houses ‘stay anonymous, have no face, fall upon companies like locusts, devour them and move on’.