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DENMARK - Denmark heads Forbes Capital Hospitality Index
Denmark, Finland and Iceland are the world's most hospitable countries to foreign investors, according to Forbes first Capital Hospitality Index.
UK - Real estate M&A to increase, says GT
The volume and value of mid-market M&A in the real estate sector has increased significantly over the past year, according to the latest Thomson Financial statistics analysed by Grant Thornton Corporate Finance. Whilst the number of mid-market deals in...
GERMANY - Granville Baird exits Westfalia-Automotive Group
Granville Baird Capital Partners has sold its majority stake in the Westfalia-Automotive Group to Odewald & Compagnie. Granville Baird, together with company management, bought an 87.5% stake in the trailor coupling device specialist in 2000.
ITALY - Industria & Finanza acquires 18% of Eurovision Partecipazioni
The Italian private equity group Industria & Finanza SGR has acquired around 18% of the broadcasting group Eurovision Partecipazioni. Other shareholders include Sandro Parenzo, who holds the majority interest, and Alerion, which also owns 18%.
GERMANY - Sale of ProSiebenSat.1 falls through
Germany's Commission to Investigate Media Concentration (KEK) has rejected the takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 by Axel Springer. The media regulator made a final decision in January to block the sale by a fiancial consortium led by Saban Capital due to market-share...
SWEDEN - Accent Equity divests Nordic Bake-Off to Vaasan & Vaasan
Accent Equity has announced the sale of Nordic Bake-Off to Vaasan & Vaasan, the Finnish Group of bakery businesses owned by CapVest Equity Partners. The value of the deal has not been disclosed, but it is understood that Accent has generated a very good...
FINLAND - Hannes Snellman ranked leading M&A law firm
Hannes Snellman has been identified as a leading Finnish law firm in areas such as M&A by the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2006.
FRANCE - European Capital buys motorcycle specialist
European Capital has today announced the completion of its one stop buyout of Action Sport Holding, a leading distributor of motorcycle and bicycle gear and accessories in France. The group’s investment takes the form of senior term loans, mezzanine debt,...
POLAND - Mid Europa acquires Wheelabrator Group
Mid Europa Partners, the largest private equity firm focused on Central and Eastern Europe, announces today its acquisition of Wheelabrator Group, the world’s leading surface preparation and finishing equipment specialist. Mid Europa has completed the...
FRANCE - Launch of First biotech start-up funding organisation
Inserm-Transfert Initiative is France’s first ever venture company to specialise in financing early-stage health and biotechnology projects. It has been launched by Inserm-Transfert, a French company that funds project development in the human health...
UK - New research highlights impact of private equity dividends
Venture capitalists awarded themselves ТЃ12.3bn in dividends from British companies they own in the past year, according to recent research.
SWEDEN - Priveq's Hemtex increases market share in Sweden
Hemtex has demonstrated exceptionally strong sales development during the second half of 2005 and has further strengthened its position in the Swedish market for home textiles.
FRANCE - AXA goes it alone with eBuyClub
AXA Private Equity is sole investor in the recent EUR 2m round of funding in Plebicom. Founded in December 2000, following its incubation by Teamlog, Plebicom manages eBuyClub - an online retailing club. It offers its 300,000 members reductions on products...
UK - ICG appoints new non-executive director
The board of Intermediate Capital Group Plc, the specialist European and Asian provider of mezzanine finance, has announced the appointment of Justin Dowley as both a new non-executive director of the company and thereafter independent chairman of the...
FRANCE - Telisma receives further EUR 3m funding
Telisma has completed a EUR 3m fourth round of funding, via its existing investors. Ventech and Innovacom have each invested EUR 1m in the company, while 3i and AGF Private Equity have take equal stakes in the balance. As a result of this third round...
FRANCE - Casino's cafeteria business up for grabs
Five private equity houses have made bids to acquire the cafeteria business of the supermarket chain Casino, according to a recent article published in Le Figaro. Rothschild has been mandated to run the auction for the sale of the business, which is valued...
FRANCE - Butler turns down Lanson International
Following Butler Capital Partner’s (BCP) decision to abandon its bid to buy Lanson International, Boizel Chanoine stepped in with an offer. The rival champagne producer acquired France’s second largest champagne producer for an estimated EUR 520m, including...
UK - Wragge launches PE funds team
Wragge & Co LLP has launched a private equity funds team with the appointment of funds expert Felicity Cole. Felicity joins Wragge & Co from Conyers Dill & Pearman in Bermuda where she headed the Cayman Islands practice. She will work with private equity,...
THE NETHERLANDS - Advent opens shop in Amsterdam
Advent International, the global private equity firm, today announced the opening of its Amsterdam office. The office will be led by Amsterdam-based Teartse Schaper, who will be supported from London by John Singer, an Advent managing director. The Amsterdam...
UK - Kennet Venture Partners hires new director
Kennet Venture Partners has announced that it has appointed Eileen Tanghal as director. She will be based in the companyтs London office.
SWEDEN - MySQL secures $18.5m in series C funding
MySQL AB, a developer of open source databases, has announced the completion of an $18.5 million series C round of financing led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP).
UK - Core VCTs II & III raise £15m
Core Growth Capital, the specialist private equity partnership, has announced that Core VCTs II & III, launched in November 2005, have raised ТЃ15m to date. The launch of Core VCTs II and III follows the successful closing of Core VCT I in June 2005,...
UK - Interregnum announces acquisition and fundraising
Subject, amongst other things, to obtaining shareholder approval at an EGM, the board of Interregnum has raised a total of ТЃ10m (before expenses) via a placing of 151,515,152 shares with institutional investors at a share price of 6.6 pence to increase...
SWEDEN - CapMan appoints Mats Gullbrandsson as partner
Mats Gullbrandsson has been appointed partner at CapMan as of 16 February 2006. Gullbrandsson has previously worked as an investment director in CapMan’s buyout team in Stockholm.