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GERMANY – Kennet leads EUR 10m sprd.net investment
Kennet Partners has led a EUR 10m funding round for customisation apparel company sprd.net AG, alongside existing investor Accel Partners.
FRANCE - Pragma leads Leyton & Associés SBO
Pragma Capital has acquired a majority stake in consultancy Leyton & Associés as part of a EUR 130m secondary management buyout of the firm from iXEN Partners and Capzanine, with listed Belgian investor Gimv co-investing and taking a minority interest....
UK - Mid-market feeling the squeeze
Figures published today in the unquote" UK mid-market barometer, produced in association with LDC, reveal that investment levels in the UK mid-market saw broad declines across the board in 2008, though there were some areas that showed a degree of resilience....
UK - Graphite embarks on timber buy-and-build
Graphite Capital has acquired a majority stake in timber windows producer Performance Window Group (PWG) for an undisclosed sum.
UK - Barclays strengthens natural resource business
Barclays Capital has hired Meb Somani to join its national resource principal investment business.
EUROPE – 3i Group acquires 3i Quoted
3i Quoted Private Equity today agreed to be acquired by 3i Group in a deal that values 3i QPEP at ТЃ355.2m. The acquisition will be effected through a solvent liquidation of QPEP, allowing 3i to acquire the 55% stake in 3i QPEP it did not already own....
Size isn't everything
"My next fund will be the same size as my current one," said one mega buyout fund manager, chatting off-the-record to your editor at a recent event
Everyone needs boundaries
Professionals concur that the mid-market is the true engine of European private equity growth. But what are the boundaries?
EUROPE - 3i sells stake in Infrastructure
Listed private equity firm 3i has reduced its stake in its infrastructure fund to a third after selling 77 million shares. The placing raised ТЃ61m towards the ТЃ2bn debt pile the investor has accrued; half of which is due in the next three years.
LUXEMBOURG/DACH - Sal Oppenheim creates new investment holding
German private bank Sal Oppenheim is reorganising it business and investment activities, with all investment holdings being placing into a newly formed entity that will be independent from the bank.
UK - Carlyle to inject £25m into IMO
According to reports, Carlyle Group is negotiating a restructuring with creditors of portfolio company IMO Carwash designed to allow it to maintain control of the business, in a deal that would see it fork out up to ТЃ25m in return for a significant write-off...
EUROPE - Debt-free deals see sharp rise in Q4
According to unquote" data, more than a quarter of the 237 buyouts completed across Europe in the last three months of 2008 contained no acquisition leverage, while in the beleaguered UK a staggering 40% of Q4 buyouts were all-equity deals.
FRANCE - Creathor Venture invest in Mobiles Republic
Creathor Venture has invested an undisclosed sum into mobile internet start-up Mobiles Republic in a first round of financing.