Montagu Private Equity, the UK-based European private equity firm, has acquired German manufacturer Stabilus from Demag Holding, which is majority-owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
The Nordic private equity firm has held a first closing of its latest mid-market buyout mezzanine vehicle on €105m.
The New York and Cleveland-based firm has sold respiratory company DHD Healthcare to Smiths Group for $55 million.
Advent International has announced a $125m final close on its third healthcare and life sciences early stage vehicle.
Energy and power investor Energy Investors Funds Group has acquired power plants in Watertown, New York and Hawaii.
Boston-based ArcLight Capital Partners plans to use its Fund II to invest in the coal, natural gas, power generation, and electric and gas transmission and distribution industries.
Centurion Capital has achieved a first and final closing of its debut private equity fund on €150m. The fund will aim to exploit the convergence of Europe’s economies and expansion of the European Union.
The UK mid-market private equity firm has appointed a new business development manager to focus on intermediaries.
Alpinvest, CalPERS and the EBRD are among the institutions that have signed up for Enterprise Investors’ fifth and largest fund to date.
Opera, the Italian private equity firm that invests in lifestyle and luxury goods firms, has announced a partnership with the private equity arm of US investment bank Bear Stearns Cos.
Three venture capitalists, combining talent from NEA, Trinity Ventures and Battery Ventures, have teamed up to back early-stage tech businesses.
Bono, the singer for rock group U2, will reportedly be a managing director at Silicon Valley ‘venture buyout’ firm Elevation Partners, launched by former Silver Lake Partners co-founder Roger McNamee.
Claudio Aguirre Pemán, a former head of Spanish operations at Merrill Lynch, has joined Spanish private equity investor Mercapital to help the firm raise and invest capital.
The US-headquartered private equity firm has realised almost 4x its original investment in one of the largest European technology transactions of 2004.
Atlas Venture, the international early-stage venture capital investor, has announced that Jeff Fagnan will join its Waltham, Massachusetts office as a partner in August.