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HIG Europe carves out Haltermann Products

HIG Europe has acquired Haltermann Products and its two production sites from The Dow Chemical Company for an undisclosed amount.

Buyouts
20 July 2011

Proventis appoints Andreas Harting as partner

Proventis Partners has announced the appointment of Andreas Harting as a partner.

DACH
20 July 2011

HIG Europe buys Hanlo Group

HIG European Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in prefabricated house construction company Hanlo Group.

Buyouts
20 July 2011

S-Refit et al. close finance round for Lophius

Venture capital firms S-Refit, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayernkapital have closed a €1.4m financing round for diagnostic test systems developer Lophius Biosciences.

DACH
19 July 2011

Lead Equities acquires Weidinger & Partner

Lead Equities has acquired a 60% stake in Weidinger & Partner Wirtschaftstraining und Organisationsentwicklung for an undisclosed amount.

DACH
19 July 2011

Ventizz reaps 5x money on QSIL sale

Ventizz Capital Partners has sold its 60% stake in QSIL AG Quarzschmelze Ilmenau to a consortium led by QSIL's CEO Stephan Behr, which now holds 100% of the company.

DACH
18 July 2011

LBBW invests in crealytics

LBBW Venture Capital has backed search marketing specialist crealytics with an undisclosed amount.

DACH
18 July 2011

Deutsche unquote" July/August 2011

Just a few months after closing what many call Europe’s most impressive fund of the year, Montagu is waving goodbye to two directors, unquote” has learned from sources close to the fund.

DACH
14 July 2011

Bertelsmann et al. join series-B round for deal united

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, KfW Bankengruppe, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Venture Incubator have invested in a series-B round of finance for payment specialist deal united.

DACH
14 July 2011

Former Barclays-owned Novem in talks about sale

Former Barclays Private Equity-owned automotive supplier Novem Group is reported to be placed on the market again.

DACH
14 July 2011

Ventizz sells stake in vitronet

Ventizz Capital Partners has together with the company’s management sold a 15% stake in broadband network specialist vitronet to RWE Deutschland.

DACH
11 July 2011

Roland Berger expands with five partners

Strategy advisory company Roland Berger has appointed a total of 18 new partners worldwide of which five are joining the company from other firms.

DACH
11 July 2011

Stiassny resigns from Buy-Out Central Europe

Kurt Stiassny has announced his resignation from the role of director at Buy-Out Central Europe following a court conviction for falsifying financial documents.

DACH
08 July 2011

Former Austrian chancellor launches private equity firm

Former Austrian federal chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, entrepreneur and adviser Andreas Frech, M&A Corporate finance specialist Alon Shklarek and lawyer Leopold Specht have launched Cudos Group.

DACH
08 July 2011

Target Partners appoints new partner

Venture capital firm Target Partners has announced the appointment of entrepreneur and business angel Tim Stracke as partner.

DACH
08 July 2011

Cognetas divests KSM Castings to CITIC Dicastal

Private equity house Cognetas has divested automotive industry supplier KSM Castings to CITIC Dicastal for an amount thought to be more than €300m.

DACH
07 July 2011

MIG AG backs Antisense Pharma in new €8m round

Retail fund manager MIG Verwaltungs AG and Global Asset Management have invested a further €8m in biotechnology company Antisense Pharma GmbH.

DACH
06 July 2011

CCC backs NEURA with €8m

Climate Change Capital (CCC) has been the sole subscriber of an €8m capital increase carried out by Austrian renewable technology company NEURA.

DACH
06 July 2011

Target Partners adds serial entrepreneur

Tim Stracke has joined Target Partners as a venture partner.

People
04 July 2011

IKB hires Ina Burghardt

German specialist bank for corporate financing in Germany and Europe IKB Deutsche Industriebank has appointed Ina Burghardt as a vice president of its syndication team.