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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...
Region of optimism
Things are at long last looking up, according to Rikke Eckhoff, reporting from the SVCA's Nordic Private Equity Congress (NPEC) 2009 in Stockholm
Fair value explained
Fair value is the market price of an asset if you were to sell to today. It was incorporated into the private equity industry by the European trade associations in 2005, to comply with the US GAAP. Yet, for illiquid private equity assets it remains a...
Looking East
Rikke Eckhoff talks to Peter Laib, managing director of Adveq, about their tripolar investment thesis and the incestuous Nordic markets
New beginnings
2010 is expected to be a better year than 2009, although the next 12-18 months will remain challenging. Even a couple of sizeable deals at year end - such as Apax's £975m acquisition of logistics firm Marken or EQT's EUR2.3bn acquisition of German publisher...
Starting from scratch? If only..
A new year should imply a fresh start. And so it might be, with a number of industry professionals polled by unquote" (pages 18-19) indicating that fresh capital and willing vendors would be the order of the day for 2010. That said, the sins of yesteryear...
After the storm
The run-up to year-end was decidedly slow in Southern Europe; the contents of this journal are testament to that. Fortunately, sentiment largely agrees that next year should be better
The year of two halves
At the beginning of last year, the feeling was uniformly that 2009 would be the year of portfolio management. This has, to a large extent, proven true. Most buyout firms were busy preserving value and steering their portfolio through the crisis - a crisis...
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.
NORDIC - EQT Infrastructure acquires Swedegas
Sweden-based private equity investor EQT has, via its Infrastructure Fund, acquired Swedegas from EON Ruhrgas, Statoil, DONG Energy and Fortum.
UK - Seventure backs EUR 1m Carbon Hub investment
Seventure Partners has invested EUR 1m into Carbon Hub, a developer of web-based carbon management solutions, alongside individual angel investors.
GERMANY - White & Case boosts restructuring & insolvency practice
White & Case has hired Christoph Schulte-Kaubrügger as equity partner for its restructuring and insolvency practice in its Berlin office.
GERMANY - Nord invests in KiKxxl
Nord Holding has invested an undisclosed sum in call centre services provider KiKxxl in an owner-buyout.
UK - Inflexion backs Griffin
Inflexion Private Equity has invested an undisclosed amount into specialist travel business Griffin Global Group, to back the acquisition of the estate of a deceased founder.
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.
UK - Bridgepoint sweetens takeover offer for Care UK
Bridgepoint has reportedly upped its offer for care home operator Care UK to between 450-500 pence per share, valuing the business at between £275-300m.
FINLAND - Sentica acquires health care provider Pihlajalinna
Finnish private equity house Sentica Partners has acquired a majority stake in Pihlajalinna Oy, a health care services provider, for an undisclosed sum.
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.
GERMANY - Salans hires restructuring partner
Salans has boosted its corporate finance and restructuring practice in Frankfurt with the hire of Dietmar Schulz as partner.