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TA Associates promotes three in London
Lovisa Lander is promoted to principal from senior vice-president
Livingbridge promotes Yateman-Smith, Kirby to partner
GP also makes a further seven promotions in its London, Manchester and Melbourne teams
UBS's Fabrice Scheer joins Alantra France
Scheer's colleague, UBS director Nicolas Senlis, also joins Alantra's Paris office
PAI's Meyer-Schönherr steps down
Meyer-Schönherr's responsibilities will be taken over by Andreas Kumeth and Philipp Meyer
Groupe LFPI eyes Document Store
ActoMezz backed the French printing equipment distributor between 2015 and 2018
Volta collects €35m for Volta Ventures II
New vehicle will provide funding to Benelux-based software and internet startups
Meridia Capital to launch €150m second fund
Fund will target majority and minority stakes in Spanish companies generating revenues of €15-150m
Renzenbrink & Partner strengthens finance and PE teams
Firm hires Isabell Hitzer to its finance team and promotes Niels Maier to partner in private equity
Elysian to launch new £250m fund in Q1 2020
Current fund also closed on £250m, in 2015, and is nearly three-quarters deployed
Slingshot Ventures aims to raise up to €100m in 2020
VC will consider breaking with tradition with a separate institutional fund of up to €40m
Endless-backed The Book People goes into administration
Book retailer The Book People will continue to trade and no redundancies are planned
PAI completes GP-led secondaries deal for Fund V
Alpinvest, Goldman Sachs and HarbourVest are lead investors in the new fund
Clessidra appoints L Catterton's Ottaviano as head of PE
Prior to joining Clessidra, Ottaviano worked at Mediobanca, Merrill Lynch and L Catterton Europe
Insurers expect PE to outperform – survey
Schroders survey respondents expect PE and infra to generate the highest returns in the next 12 months
Keensight hires senior director, analyst
Karna previously worked on healthcare deals for the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs
3i nets £102m from Audley Travel, Hans Anders dividends
3i receives proceeds of £67m from Audley Travel, while Hans Anders generates a €42m windfall
Texas pension names new CIO
Auby's promotion follows the decision of the current CIO, Jerry Albright, to step down
ICG appoints new head of European secondaries
Blossier will work with head of PE funds Oliver Gardey to build out the platform in Europe
Santander's Tresmares launches €175m private equity fund
Tresmares Capital will also manage a €900m private debt fund to finance the expansion of Spanish SMEs
TRS replaces TorreyCove with Stepstone as PE consultant
TRS also rehires StepStone Group as investment consultant for real estate and real asset opportunities
Lindsay Goldberg in talks to sell Schur Flexibles
GP bought the plastic packaging company in 2016 and the exit is expected to complete in Q1 2020
MJ Hudson lists in £97m London IPO
Multi-service advisory firm raises £31.4m from new and existing investors
Main Capital collects €535m for sixth software buyout fund
Buyout fund should hit its €564m hard-cap in January 2020, Unquote understands
IAG's Martin Scott joins Sanne
Scott, who was previously director of IAG's PE business, is now head of Guernsey at Sanne