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SWITZERLAND - Ventizz founds management consulting company
German venture investor Ventizz Capital Partners has established a new management consulting unit in Switzerland, Ventizz Management Consulting AG, which will be led by Guido Bollue and will focus exclusively on the firm's portfolio companies.
Haste makes waste
The current market conditons mean a lot of companies will fold. Many are unsurprising - when was the last time you shopped in Woolworths (excluding Pick-n-Mix)? In fact, Standard & Poor's estimates that up to 75 European businesses from its speculative...
NORWAY - Picasso et al. invest NOK 73m into Lytix
Norwegian drug developer Lytix Biopharma has secured NOK 73m funding from existing investors including Picasso Kapital AS, SåkornInvest Nord AS, The University of Tromsø and Norinnova AS, among others.
UK - Close Ventures spins out; renames itself Albion
Close Ventures has bought itself out from the Close Brothers Group umbrella.
FRANCE - Oddo invests EUR 3m into Mixicom
Oddo Private Equity has invested EUR 6m into publishing company Mixicom.
UK - Phoenix appoints two to management committee
Phoenix Equity Partners has appointed partners David Burns and Richard Dew to its Management Committee.
FRANCE - Seventure returns for EUR 11.5 financing of assurOne
Returning investor Seventure Partners has alongside new investors CDC Entreprises and Philippe Louis-Dreyfus invested EUR 11.5m into assurOne, an internet insurance provider.
UK - Praxis acquires IASL
Praxis Fund Services has announced the signing of an initial agreement to acquire rival fund administration business Investec Administration Services Ltd.
UK - Cogent promotes managing director and appoints associate
Secondaries advisory specialist Cogent Partners has announced the promotion of Bernhard Engelien to managing director and the appointment of Briac Houtteville as associate in its London office.
FRANCE - Platina purchases Compobaie assets
Platina Partners has acquired the assets of Compobaie, a producer of pre-fabricated window units for residential housing, from the French courts, forming Compobaie Solutions SAS.
FRANCE - Sofinnova leads EUR 6m DBV funding
Sofinnova Partners has provided EUR 4m as part of a EUR 6m financing round for biopharmaceutical company DBV Technologies, with the balance being supplied by new investor ALK-Abello, a leading worldwide immunotherapy company.
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...