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FRANCE - Close Brothers changes senior management
Close Brothers has appointed Laurent Camilli and Gwénael de Sagazan as co-heads of the firms French division.
GERMANY - T-Online Venture Fund backs myON-ID
T-Online Venture Fund has invested an undisclosed seven-figure sum into myON-ID Media GmbH, a platform for online reputation management, in a second round of financing.
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 £600,000 into fuel distribution business Rowlico Fuels Ltd.
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...
UK - Unquote” congratulates the winners of the British Private Equity Awards
Unquote" hosted the fourth annual British Private Equity Awards in London last night.
SWEDEN - STING Capital exits HULU
The Swedish venture firm, linked to Stockholm Innovation & Growth, has sold HULU Sweden, a developer of wireless technology, to the Norwegian telecommunication business Gipz AS.
UK – HgCapital bolsters renewables team
HgCapital has appointed Luigi Pettinicchio and Luis Quiroga to its Renewables team, bringing the total number of energy infrastructure specialists to seven.
GERMANY - Partech leads Private Sale investment
Partech International has led a funding round, believed to be worth in excess of EUR 10m, for online retailer Private Sale GmbH, alongside existing investors Mangrove Capital Partners and Holtzbrinck Ventures.
SWEDEN - Scope supports Pocketstället
Scope, through Scope Growth II LP, has invested an undisclosed sum into Swedish book distributor, P Pocketstället AB.
ITALY - Cape buys Duplomatic for EUR 3.5m
Cimino & Associati Private Equity (Cape) has wholly acquired industrial manufacturer Duplomatic Automazione from AXA Private Equity in a leveraged buyout valued at around EUR 3.5m.
SWEDEN - Nordic Capital closes on EUR 4.3bn
Nordic Capital has held a final close of its seventh fund, Nordic Capital VII, having secured EUR 4.3bn in total commitments.
GERMANY - BayernLB Private Equity backs MBO of RSA
BayernLB Private Equity has backed the management buyout of industrial machinery company RSA Entgrat- u Trenn-Systeme GmbH & Co KG.
SWEDEN - 3i divests stake in Boxer
3i has sold its 30% stake in Nordic digital television company Boxer TV-Access AB to majority stakeholder Teracom, the Swedish government-owned media operator, for an undisclosed sum.
EUROPE - Antin Infrastructure Partners launch announced
Antin Infrastructure Partners, a new fund management business focusing on the infrastructure space and affiliate of BNP Paribas Asset Management, announced its launch this morning at a briefing in London.
ITALY - Cape acquires Trafomec
Cimino & Associati Private Equity (Cape) has acquired industrial manufacturer Trafomec in a buyout deal valued at around EUR 11m.
FRANCE - Seventure and INRA join forces
French venture capital firm Seventure Partners has formed a partnership with INRA, the technology transfer arm of the French National Institute for Agronomic Research, in order to create Agro Biotech Accelerateur (ABA), a new company designed to finance...
BELGIUM - KBC et al sell Oleon
KBC Private Equity, Fortis Private Equity, Ackermans & van Haaren, Mercator Verzekeringen and Jan De Clerck, have sold 100% of the shares in chemicals business Oleon to Sofiproteol, a French company active in the production and transformation of vegetable...
UK - Brown Rudnick appoints Richard Penfold
Brown Rudnick has appointed Richard Penfold to its corporate group in London.