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UK - AFM fuels Rowlico expansion with £600,000 investment
Alliance Fund Managers (AFM), through the Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF) Venture Fund, has completed an investment of ТЃ600,000 into fuel distribution business Rowlico Fuels Ltd.
UK - Beltrae completes Invisible acquisition
Irish investor group Beltrae Partners has acquired Scottish geothermal heating company Invisible Heating Systems (IHS) in a deal reported to be worth ТЃ10m.
UK - Azini leads £1.5m Keronite funding
Azini Capital has invested ТЃ1.5m as part of a ТЃ2.5m funding round for advanced surface treatment technology business Keronite Group.
EUROPE - Oaktree closes on EUR 1.6bn
US-headquartered investor group Oaktree Capital Management has closed OCM European Principal Opportunities Fund II LP, its second European fund dedicated to opportunistic private equity and distress-for-control investments, on around EUR 1.6bn.
FRANCE - AGF leads EUR 14.5m Recupyl investment
AGF Private Equity has led a EUR 14.5m investment in Recupyl, a developer and operator of battery recycling plants, alongside return investor Aloe Private Equity.
CEE - Schoenherr expands east
Austrian law firm Schoenherr is increasing its presence in Central Europe with the launch of three new offices in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.
UK - Freshfields promotes Pugh to head of dispute resolution group
International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted Chris Pugh to global practice group leader for the firm's dispute resolution group, replacing Ian Terry, who has held the position for three years.
UK - Sun European eyes second furniture rescue
Troubled furniture retailer Land of Leather has confirmed that it has recieved several unsolicited approaches regarding a takeover, with reports suggesting that Sun European, the private equity firm which rescued rival business ScS Upholstery from administration...
CEE - Magisters merges with Belarus law firm
CIS-focused law firm Magisters has merged with Belarus-based rival BelJurBureau.
A touch of frost
A chilling frost has gathered around the private equity world for the winter season of 2008, especially in the leveraged buyouts department which has all but ground to a halt with only the EUR300-500m Socotec deal closure to speak of. With only limited...
60 seconds - Henri Isnard - ARCIS
Francois Rowell meets the co-founder and managing partner of Anglo-French investor ARCIS, to ask how the credit crunch has affected the secondaries market. ARCIS have just closed their fourth fund on EUR354m