Nordics

SWEDEN - Altor and Bure bid for Carnegie

According to reports, Nordic buyout houses Altor Equity Partners and Bure Equity are in negotiations to acquire Carnegie, the investment bank which has been under the ownership of the Swedish Government since November last year.

FINLAND - Ferd Venture leads EUR 5m Eniram funding

Ferd Venture has invested EUR 2.7m as part of a EUR 5m investment round for Eniram Ltd, a provider of maritime technology solutions, alongside Finnish Industry Investment and existing investor Conor Venture Partners.

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 JosУЉ Manuel Barroso.

NORWAY - Investinor hires ten

Investinor, the Norwegian government-backed venture fund established in the autumn of 2008, has now completed the formation of its investment team with ten new hires.

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...

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...