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Lone Star to float Neinor Homes in Madrid
Texas-based private equity firm intends to exit the Spanish home builder after a two-year ownership period
Clearwater hires Weavers as partner
After more than a decade as a director with Rothschild in Manchester, David Weavers leaves for Clearwater International
Enterprise Investors to float Dino Polska in Warsaw
Dino founder Tomasz Biernacki will remain majority shareholder after the IPO, retaining a 51% stake in the business
Kima-backed startup Heetch in limbo following court verdict
Ride-sharing app is deemed to be enabling unlicensed taxi operation by its users
Natixis hires two in Milan
Investment bank boosts its coverage and M&A branch in Milan with two senior appointments
Investcorp completes purchase of 3i's debt management arm
Deal marks the asset manager's largest strategic investment to date, almost doubling its AUM
Freshfields poaches five Paris-based partners from Ashurst
Guy Benda, Nicolas Barberis, Yann Gozal, Laurent Mabilat and Stéphanie Corbière leave Ashurst
JTC hires two in London and Luxembourg
Firm boost its team with two senior appointments in Luxembourg and London
Arle Capital to close in Q1 2017
Fund manager of listed LP Candover Investments recently divested stakes in two listed portfolio companies
BGF appoints EY's Skade
BGF expands its team in the south-west England region
Catalyst hires Silk and Cox
London-based corporate finance outfit adds Alex Silk and Shannon Cox to its team as principals
EQT scores fastest fundraise to date with €4bn infra vehicle
EQT Infrastructure III reached its hard-cap in less than six months
Maven to manage £58m for Northern Power House fund
Fund will buy £50,000-2m equity tickets in small-and medium-sized businesses
UK LPs expect distributions to drop in 2017 – Rede survey
Investors remain hungry for PE exposure as placement agent Rede Partners launches biannual report on LP sentiment towards PE
Bruno leaves Clessidra after eight years
Departure follows the recent depearture of the GP's former chairperson, Francesco Trapani
MBO Partenaires appoints Xavier de Prévoisin to partner
De Prévoisin becomes the French buyout firm's sixth partner
KKR acquires 40% stake in Telefonica's Telxius
Infrastructure deal comes after the mobile operator decided against pursuing an IPO for its infrastructure arm
Lonsdale promotes Evans to partner
Ben Evans becomes a partner after eight years at the PE firm
Keensight hires Cohen as partner and COO
Arnaud Cohen joins the French outfit after a long stint in EY's transaction advisory services team
Cubera promotes Haukås and Nord to partner
Merete Haukås and Johan Nord join the rank of partners at Norway-based Cubera Private Equity
HgCapital raises £3.1bn in double fund close
GP successfully closes HgCapital 8 and Mercury 2 on £2.5bn and £575m respectively
21 Centrale organises succession with Barbier promotion
Founding managing partner Gérard Pluvinet will step down to join the supervisory board in 2019
Draper Esprit bolsters Dublin office with McClafferty
Venture firm hires Irish online entrepreneur Nicola McClafferty as investment director
Paine & Partners rebrands as Paine Schwartz Partners
US agriculture-focused GP has promoted its founding partner and president, Kevin Schwartz, to CEO