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Capricorn appoints new investment manager
Belgian investor Capricorn Venture Partners has appointed Dr Ir Johan Reynaert as investment manager in its cleantech team.
Italy's solar market heats up
Earlier this week UK-based investor Amplio Group connected two solar PV plants in Italy and plans to connect an additional four by the end of the month – all in all a €13m deal.
CPE invests €10m in Metallkraft
Climate Change Capital Private Equity (CPE), has led a convertible bond issue in Metallkraft, a Norwegian company that has developed a patented process to recycle spent slurry used in cutting solar silicon wafers.
Consortium funds Eucodis with EUR 2m
Existing investors Pontis Capital, Wiener Wachstumsfonds, IBG und Arax have invested EUR 2m in enzyme company Eucodis Bioscience.
HTGF and Bayern Kapital invest in InnoMotix
High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital have invested in pneumatics company InnoMotix GmbH.
Scope invests EUR 7m into Footbalance
Swedish growth investor Scope has backed the Finnish producer of moulded insoles Footbalance.
Q&A: Secondary chances
Hanspeter Bader, head of private equity at Unigestion, talks with Mareen Goebel about the secondaries space and current issues with fundraising
BC and AXA's Medica set to become latest listing
French care home business Medicaтs flotation could be a sign that the IPO market is in rude health.
Luxembourg sees birth of industry body
Luxembourg has long been attractive to private equity and venture capital funds and has finally seen the birth of its own industry association.
Amplio invests in solar project
Dedicated environmental investors The Amplio Group has completed and connected two plants of 1MW each expecting to connect four additional 1MW plants by the end of the month.
AVCO moves offices
The Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Organisation (AVCO) has moved offices.
New Danish seed fund attracts DKK 435m in first closing
Danish start-up investor SEED Capital Denmark has secured DKK 435m in commitments for second fund.
Nordic Mezzanine hires three
Nordic Mezzanine has appointed Marlof Tjaden investment director, Tin Radosevic investment manager, and Kenneth Johansson analyst.
Advent latest to hunt on Warsaw Exchange
Advent's EUR 100m buyout of WsiP marks the second take-private in two months from one of Europe's busiest stock markets. But why are investors choosing Warsaw? Kimberly Romaine reports
Argos Soditic reaps more than 4.5x on Dinno Santé exit
Argos Soditic, FHH Conseil and the management have sold their 100% stake in Dinno Santé to the healthcare business of Air Liquide and in doing so have realised over 4.5x return.
Nordic unquote" February '10
Click here to access the latest issue, which features a look at the region's exits market as well as why 3i Growth Capital is optimistic.
Blackstone, TPG, KKR show interest in RBS' WorldPay
Private equity heavyweights including Blackstone, TPG, KKR and Permira are reportedly among those interested in purchasing RBS' $3bn global-card processing unit.
BioMedPartners strengthens management team
Healthcare venture firm BioMedPartners has strengthened its management with Josef Bissig as new venture partner.