- GERMANY – Consortium invests EUR 85m in Sulphurcell
- GERMANY - Gilde Buy-Out Fund sells Walter Services Group
- FRANCE - Eurazeo strengthens team
- NETHERLANDS - Waterland restructures JVH Gaming’s buyout debt
- SWEDEN - EEP et al close EUR 26m PacketFront financing
- UK - Core Capital and Aberdeen merge
- UK - Bowmark generates 63% IRR on sale of travel group
- FRANCE - Iris backs EUR 4m Alyotech financing
- SWEDEN - Riverside acquires SPX Air Filtration
- FINLAND - Consortiums invest EUR 7.5m into Xtract
- SPAIN - Private equity investment drops 41%
- GERMANY - Waterland Private Equity acquires GolfRange
- ITALY - Private equity offers too low for Cavalli
- ITALY - Bridgepoint acquires perfumeries
- UK - Doughty Hanson completes 20:20 refinancing
GERMANY - Consortium invests EUR 85m in Sulphurcell 2008-07-09
Intel Capital, Intel's investment organisation, has led an EUR 85m total equity funding round for thin-film solar modules company Sulfurcell, investing EUR 24m. Other institutional investors, including Climate Change Capital Private Equity, AIG, Demeter Partners, Zouk Ventures and BankInvest, invested a further EUR 38m, with the remainder of the round coming from existing investors.
GERMANY - Gilde Buy-Out Fund sells Walter Services Group 2008-07-09
Gilde Buy-Out Fund has sold services company Walter Services Group to Odewald & Compagnie and caption for an undisclosed amount. Gilde Buy-Out Fund will reinvest part of the proceeds from the exit.
GERMANY - Waterland Private Equity acquires GolfRange 2008-07-08
Waterland Private Equity Investments has acquired a majority stake in golf company GolfRange for an undisclosed sum.
Editors Letter
Making lemonade
1 May 2008
The market continues to be challenging - deals are harder to find, and take longer to complete, while securing debt remains a major challenge. This issue's feature examines the situation more closely (pages 15-16). Other... [more]
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On the fast track east
Austria has lagged behind its DACH neighbours in terms of activity. However, its slow-but-steady approach has seen it weather the recent market blip - and now it has cast its eyes east
Where there's a will, there's a way
Legislation in the current political and economic climate is bound to lag behind.
2007 review: Central & Eastern Europe
January:- Mid Europa Partners bought Vilnius-based Baltic mobile operator Bite from TDC for a cash consideration of EUR450m.
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