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EUROPE - Helvetia Wealth AG appoints new board member
Asset manager Helvetia Wealth AG has appointed Professor Gerhard Arminger as a member of its board.
Helvetia Wealth AG appoints new board member
Asset manager Helvetia Wealth AG has appointed Professor Gerhard Arminger as a member of its board.
GLOBAL - First Reserve Corp promotes Deulina to director
Energy-focused investor First Reserve Corporation has promoted Anastasia Deulina to director.
GLOBAL- MVision boosts real estate team with two new hires
Placement agent MVision has appointed Mitchell B Sikora as managing director and Scott P Arden as director to the firm.
GLOBAL - General Atlantic appoints former Visa president as adviser
Global private equity firm General Atlantic has appointed former Visa president Hans Morris as special adviser.
FRANCE - AXA acquires minority stake in Cegos
AXA Private Equity has acquired a 15% stake in vocational training services business Cegos Group.
FRANCE – Butler in exclusive talks to sell France Champignon to Bonduelle
Paris-based private equity firm Butler Capital Partners is currently holding exclusive talks with food manufacturer Bonduelle over the sale of its portfolio company France Champignon.
First Reserve Corp promotes Deulina to director
Energy-focused investor First Reserve Corporation has promoted Anastasia Deulina to director.
FRANCE – AXA PE backs merger of Charlois and Saury
AXA Private Equity has backed the merger of two French barrel businesses, Charlois Group and Saury Group. The deal will allow both businesses to retain their identities, while enabling them to extend their international environmental certifications across...
GLOBAL - CD&R holds $5bn final close of eighth fund
US-based private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has held a final close on its latest fund, Clayton Dubilier & Rice Fund VIII, on approximately $5bn, $1bn more than its predecessor vehicle which closed in 2006.
EUROPE - Parish Capital holds $73m first close of European fund-of-funds
Parish Capital has held a first close of $73m for Parish Europe II, a Europe-focused fund-of-funds vehicle with a EUR250 million target.
Parish Capital holds $73m first close of European fund-of-funds
Parish Capital has held a first close of $73m for Parish Europe II, a Europe-focused fund-of-funds vehicle with a EUR250 million target.
Balance of power
Investors are putting a significant amount of pressure on buyout houses, pushing for better terms and in some cases scaling back commitments
Global trends, what comes next?
Presentation by Carsten Valgreen, partner at Benderly Economics
A mixed Christmas
2009 has ended as a bit of a mixed bag for French private equity. On the one hand, this month has seen a couple of restructurings, with Duke Street Capital having its share in Navimo reduced to 30% after BNP Paribas took control, and both CVC and the...
GLOBAL - Partners Group restructures management
Partners Group has promoted head of finance Roland Käslin and Guernsey head Denis O'Malley from senior vice presidents to managing directors, as part of a wider organisational restructuring of the firm.
FRANCE - Demeter 2 closes EUR 203m fund
Demeter Partners has closed its second fund, Demeter 2, on EUR 203m, just above its EUR 200m target.
EUROPE - HarbourVest promotes Soquar to vice president
HarbourVest Partners has promoted Abraham Soquar to vice president in the firm's London office.
EUROPE - Doughty Hanson promotes private equity co-heads
European buyout house Doughty Hanson has promoted Mark Corbidge and John Leahy to co-heads of private equity.
EUROPE - Still scope for secondaries?
Could the vast amounts of secondary funds raised recently and the limited deal completion lead to a capital overhang in the coming years? Francois Rowell asks Sergio Jovele of Partners Group, which yesterday announced the closing of its latest secondaries-focused...
FRANCE - Accor board splits company in two
Colony Capital- and Eurazeo-backed Accor has backed the board's decision split the company into two separate entities, based around its hotel business and its prepaid services division, with both companies to be listed separately on the Paris stock market.
EUROPE - Earth holds first close of £750m fund
Earth Capital Partners has held an undisclosed first close of its EON Climate & Renewables fund, which has a target of EUR 750m.
EUROPE - Environmental infrastructure: high returns, low risk?
Combining the low risk profile of traditional infrastructure investing with the potentially high returns from clean tech investing can prove a winning formula, argues Jamie Richards, partner at Foresight Group, in a recent video interview with unquote"...
EUROPE - Hendrik Brandis appointed Chairman of VC at EVCA
Hendrik Brandis, managing partner of German investor group Earlybird, has been appointed chairman of the venture capital platform of the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EVCA), succeeding Patrick Sheehan of Environmental Technologies...