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Banca Carige rejects Apollo bid
Non-binding offer consisted of €550m for capital increase and purchase of non-performing loans
Foresight expands Nottingham and Manchester teams
Mike Quinn joins from RSM while Matthew Pomroy joins from Mazars
Catalyst promotes Holden to partner
New partner oversees the advisory firm's London-based business services team
Invest Europe CEO Höppner to depart
Invest Europe CEO Dörte Höppner departs after five years at the association's helm
Liautaud named managing partner at Balderton
Liautaud joined Balderton in 2008 as general partner after selling his company Business Objects
BGF appoints Caird’s Barker
Barker joins from Caird Capital, where he was an investment director
KCP appoints FTI's Excell as investment manager
New hire will identify potential acquisitions for firm's first institutional fund
Italmobiliare offers to buy majority stake in Clessidra for €16m
The binding offer is for the entire stake in the Italian private equity house
AnaCap to acquire Barclays' French retail banking operations
Financial specialist buyout house continues investments in European banking groups
Enterprise-backed XTB valued at €308.9m in Warsaw IPO
Polish Enterprise Fund VI, which holds Enterprise’s stake, did not sell any shares in the IPO
Intesa Sanpaolo launches fintech VC Neva Finventures
New venture capital vehicle targets Italian startups in fintech sector
Endless appoints Addleshaw Goddard's Smith as partner
New recruit worked on the firm's secondary buyout deal for Bright Blue Foods
Innova promotes Magnuszewska to partner
Former managing director Magdalena Magnuszewska becomes partner at CEE-focused GP Innova Capital
Electra deputy managing partner Symondson steps down
Departure forms part of the GP's long-term succession plan, set in motion in 2010
Former German politician Guttenberg joins Mountain Partners
Former minister of defence joins the Swiss venture capital firm's supervisory board
Access Capital completes wave of promotions
Promotions also include the appointment of two new investment directors
Heliad appoints Thomas Hanke as CEO
Thomas Hanke is named as new CEO, while Gunter Greiner is promoted to investment director
RCapital's Morses Club to float on AIM
UK-based small loans provider is yet to reveal whether IPO will provide GP with exit route
Bowmark promotes three
Julian Masters promoted to partner, Tom Elliott and Enrica Dacomo promoted to investment directors
BGF hires Midven's Sorby
New recruit will work on Midlands-based deals from BGF's Birmingham office
Former Altor and Nordic Capital veterans launch Summa Equity
GP will focus on buyouts in sectors with climate and demography-driven changes
Iris Capital promotes two to managing partner
Erik de la Rivière and Erkan Kilicaslan have been part of the firm for more than 10 years
Linklaters appoints new partners
PE-focused Will Aitken-Davies and Jann Jetter are promoted to partners
Grant Thornton promotes Woodcock and Platt to director
New appointments focus on the business support services and TMT sectors, respectively