- IRELAND - Apax interested in Bank of Ireland
- PORTUGAL - Amorin launches EUR 100m private equity fund
- NORWAY - Borea increases stake in Software Innovation to 38%
- SPAIN - Tvikap postpones second close
- FRANCE - I-Source et al. invest EUR 4.3m into Advestigo
- UK - YFM invests more than £200,000 into Break30
- UK - Hotbed members back HealthFund with £1.45m
- UK - Catalyst promotes Clapp
- UK - TTP to manage £30m technology fund
- CEE - BMB Group acquires EMP Global
- GERMANY - Marfin Investment Group acquires 49.99% of FAI for EUR 15m
- UK - BVCA names advisory board
- UK - Carbon Trust leads £3.3m round into ACAL Energy
- BELGIUM - NIBC takes minority stake in Electrawinds
- SWITZERLAND - New Value-backed Silentsoft in CHF 2m capital increase
GERMANY - Marfin Investment Group acquires 49.99% of FAI for EUR 15m 3 December 2008
Marfin Investment Group Holdings SA has agreed to acquire 49.99% of Flight Ambulance International Rent-a-Jet Aktiengesellschaft from its main shareholder Axtmann Beteiligungs GmbH for EUR 15m.
SWITZERLAND - New Value-backed Silentsoft in CHF 2m capital increase 3 December 2008
New Value AG has contributed CHF 1m in a CHF 2m growth financing of portfolio company Silentsoft. Existing investors such as Venture Incubator AG also participated in the capital increase.
GERMANY - Wachstumsfonds Mittelstand Sachsen invests in Martin Spieß 3 December 2008
Wachstumsfonds Mittelstand Sachsen has provided a 'substantial' amount of mezzanine funding for MS Engineering und Beratungsgesellschaft mbH, the holding company of Dresden-based entrepreneur Martin Spieß, which emcompasses the companies Lomma GmbH and Rotec Systems GmbH.
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1 November 2008
Shock news stories about the global economy have subsided. Global stock markets are down - the DAX has now fallen below 4,200 points - and the economic freeze is reaching beyond the automotive industry, which... [more]
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Q&A - Before the thaw
Stuart Hewer, new head of leveraged finance for Germany at RBS, admits that his pipeline is sluggish. But the worst of it is over and that a recovery should be expected in early 2009. Mareen Goebel reports
Silver Lining
When debt was cheap and abundant, ever larger deals were possible as there seemed no limit to what the industry could do. Now, however, many private equity houses are forced to adapt to a new paradigm - but there are also those to whom the new environment presents opportunities
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
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