At the interim closing Jerusalem Venture Partners has $350m in commitments for its latest communications fund.
The private equity provider has led the £42.3m management buyout of Hunting Engineering, the UK defence contractor.
The specialist IT infrastructure and management services provider has been bought out from DCS in a £21m deal.
Private equity managers operating in Central and Eastern Europe say institutional investors will do well to move into local funds before the region matures.
An early stage technology fund investing in UK and Ireland has been set up that plans to use an advisory panel of seasoned technology entrepreneurs to add value.
Benchmark Capital backs Alternis with $4.5m, Congruency raises further $10.25m, 3i & ACT invest in Intense Photonics
Credit Lyonnais Asset Management Private Equity and BNP Paribas join Carlyle in a rare dot-com play.
Two new hires will develop the Portfolio development team’s early growth strategy
Infopress printing money; Spectrum Equity storing value; First Hop, second round; YourNews closes second round
Back To Basics 2001-07-17 Staff Writer As the French say, plus ça change, plus ç’est la meme chose ('the more things change, the more they stay the same'). In 1988, when I wrote my first treatise on venture capital, I mentioned a phenomenon which had been apparent to me and other experienced players in this
IRegent, Jim Mellon’s Hong Kong investment group, provides initial backing for a new genetic medicine fund.
John Major will be the firm's European chairman. Christopher Finn explains why, and looks at other developments inside the firm.
Epartners has given back its e-money. The firm has decided it cannot invest $520m of the $650m fund it raised for internet companies last July and will return it to investors including Morgan Stanley and Softbank.
The venture capitalist has announced a $950m fund aimed at biotech and IT, but not the internet. Institutionals on both sides of the Atlantic contributed to the fund.
Money from Merlin Bioscience, Citigroup, Verus and 3i; initial close from Vertex.