The Swiss alternative assets manager rounds off a spate of activity with the close of its latest European fund of buyout funds on €368m taking the total firepower of its 2006 fundraising to €1.6bn.
The Nordic alternative assets investor has followed up an exit earlier this week with an acquisition today.
The central and eastern European veteran manager has closed the largest fund ever for the region, turning away €600m of commitments, and plans to extend its activity to the Ukraine and Croatia.
Henderson Equity Partners’s has agreed a £886.9m takeover of John Laing, a UK developer, while simultaneously holding a €830m close on its latest PFI secondary fund.
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The French private equity firm has rolled over its investment in Sebia, a diagnostics business, while mezzanine provider Intermediate Capital Group has stepped up its exposure.
The mezzanine and preferred equity investor, founded by two former bankers, has proved its model to investors and raised twice as much as its 2004 debut.
The former buyout arm of Dutch Rabobank has closed its first fund since spinning out of the bank on target after one year’s fundraising.
The European buyout firm is reorganising ahead of its fundraising next year and has decided to cut the number of its deal-doing partners by a quarter.
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AP Alternative Assets, the publicly quoted private equity fund launched last week by Apollo Management, a US buyout house, has raised a third more then expected.
Richard Rimer, one of four brothers at European high tech heavyweight Index Ventures, is leaving the firm to pursue his interests in medical technology.
Interest is building around Bebo, a social networking site backed by Benchmark Capital, as founder Michael Birch plays down potential of approach from Viacom, a US media firm.
Beirut-based Corporate Finance House has announced a first close for its new property fund focused on the Middle East.
As Starwood Capital looks to expand into India, it has brought Balaji Rao on board to head its operations on the Asian subcontinent.