Southern Europe
Q&A: José Basabe of Jamieson & Basabe
José Basabe speaks to unquote" about his new Spanish corporate finance house
Blackstone Advisory boosts Iberian team
Duo worked on deals including Doughty's recent hospital chain buy-and-build
Inveready leads €600,000 round for Conzoom
Deal is first completed through Inveready's latest fund
Active Venture Partners backs Odilo
Fresh capital to support company's expansion in US and Latin America
Lack of passport could force Italian GPs to emigrate
Italy's hasty enforcement of the AIFMD is causing a GP exodus
Caixa's vLex buys Quolaw
Bolt-on expands vLex's Latin American reach
N+1 Mercapital sells Clece after 2-year holding
GP committed €152m for a 25% stake in 2012
LBO Italia sells Corvette to Recipharm
€100m equity consideration will be paid for 50:50 in cash and convertible bond
Q&A with Meketa's McCourt on branching out into Europe
Meketa recently set up shop in London to increase European activity
Capvis buys Faster from Argan Capital
Company has been owned by private equity since 2002
Travel sector investments taking off
The digital revolution is creating exciting opportunties in the travel sector
Russia's VTB Capital in talks for Cavalli stake
Permira reported to have expressed interest in asset earlier this year
Altamar holds first close after three weeks
Vehicle has €500m hard-cap
Direct lending moves into mainstream but confusion persists
Will corporate borrowers come to terms with direct lenders?
Azimut buys 55% stake in Futurimpresa
Duo intends to create a private equity platform to support SMEs
Deal in focus: Ambienta buys IP Cleaning from Synergo
Environmental investor Ambienta welcomed IP Cleaning into its portfolio in early July
Jamieson Corporate Finance opens Spanish office
Business to be headed up by former co-head of PE at ABN AMRO
CVC sells Grupo Zena to Alia Capital
CVC bought the company in 2001
Scytl raises further $44m
Company counts Balderton, Nauta and SAP Ventures among its shareholders
Fondo Strategico backs Trevifin
Company is part-owned by Kuwait Investment Authority
HIG buys Café & Té and Panaria
Organic growth and bolt-ons on the cards for coffee shop chain
Onza announces two investments: Bucmi, Paymet
VC currently raising maiden fund
Springwater buys Monesa
GP to create Basque engineering group
Secondaries: A balancing act
Transfers are becoming more complex as cash continues to flood secondaries market