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FRANCE – Truffle backs consultancy in EUR 2m deal

Truffle Capital has pumped EUR 2.1m into French consultancy firm Eco-Carbone. The business was set up in 2001 as a specialist adviser for climate change mitigation. Eco-Carbone’s two main areas of focus are acting as a consultant to coal mines, and as...

SWEDEN - Procuritas acquires Olivia Group

Procuritas has acquired the majority of the shares in Olivia Group, a company that specialises in personal assistance for functional impaired individuals and elderly care services, for an undisclosed value. The management and its founder, Karsten Inde,...

Defying logic

'Crisis' is perhaps too harsh a word to describe the current financial picture. There are certainly less mega-deals, but they are always fairly lumpy. The real engine of growth in Southern Europe is at the mid-market level, where although activity has...

Mezzanine funds gather pace

Francois Rowell speaks to Olivier Bossan, leader of Argos Expansion's management team, about the rise of sponsorless mezzanine funds and what this means for the French private equity market

Opportunities for innovation

A survey published at the end of January by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported a very positive situation for the Netherlands. Despite stagnation at the beginning of the century, the Dutch economy is now in good...

Carry on up

It seems things could be looking up for French private equity. We are only in the early months of 2008, a year which has been roundly touted as likely to be one of the toughest and most testing for the industry for some time, yet there has already been...