European Venture Capital Journal articles from May 2004

European Venture Capital Journal archives from May 2004

Final close for second Waterland fund.(Funds)(Waterland Private Equity Investments B.V.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Dutch private equity firm Waterland Private Equity Investments has reached a final close on Waterland Private Equity Fund II (WPEFII) with commitments of 170m [euro]. The fund was launched in March 2003 and had two previous closings, both last...

Venture fund doubles to 5m [pounds sterling].(Funds)(GEIF Ventures Early Growth Fund)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... GEIF Ventures Early Growth Fund has doubled its fund to 5m [pounds sterling] a year after it was created. Established in April 2003, the GEIF Ventures Early Growth Fund was set up to encourage angel investment in early stage companies in the...

ALPHA Associates breaks free.(News)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The private equity team of ALPHA Associates has spun out of Swiss Life Private Equity Partners. Peter Derendinger, Christoph Huber, Petr Rojicek and Petra Salesny manage the newly independent business. The team members have worked together for...

ERGO takes on innotech portfolio.(Ergo Insurance Group took over innotech Beteiligungsgesellschaft)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... ERGO Equity Partner has taken over the management of the private equity fund innotech Beteiligungsgesellschaft, which has been renamed Techinvest Beteiligungsgesellschaft. ERGO Equity Partner is part of the German insurance group ERGO and...

Indigo opens Paris office.(News)(Indigo Capital Ltd.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Mezzanine finance provider Indigo Capital is opening its first overseas office in Paris. Cyril de Galea, who until now has been based in the firm's London office, will be based in Paris and will be joined shortly by Monique Deloire, who is also...

Carbon Trust launches incubator programme.(News)(Carbon Trust to fund projects specialised in low carbon technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Carbon Trust has launched a 2.7m [pounds sterling] incubator programme to fund projects specialised in low carbon technology. The trust has already awarded funding contracts to three incubators and discussions with a fourth are ongoing. ...

IPO Watch positive.(survey on market value of Initial public offerings)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... PricewaterhouseCoopers latest IPO Watch Europe survey, tracking volume and value of IPOs on Europe's main stock exchanges, shows a continuing recovery in the IPO market in Q1 2004. There were 56 IPOs between January 1 and March 31, a...

Swiss Re closes 409m [euro] FoFs.(Swiss Re Investors closes Swiss Re Private Equity Partners II)(fund-of-funds)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Swiss Re Private Equity Advisers has held a final close at 409m [euro] on Swiss Re Private Equity Partners II (SRPEP II.) Limited partners in the fund are a number of well known Swiss and international institutional investors. The fund...

TDR closes on 500m [euro].(Funds)(TDR Capital)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... TDR Capital has reached a final closing of 500m [euro] on its maiden fund TDR was formed in 2002 by Manjit Dale and Stephen Robertson, former managing partners of DB Capital Partners and DB Capital Mezzanine and Tudor Capital The fund will...

Schroders holds final close on FoFs.(Schroder Ventures)(fund-of-funds)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Schroders has reached a final close of its Schroder Private Equity Fund of Funds II (SPEFOFII), which is advised by Schroder Ventures Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Schroder Ventures International Investment Trust (SVIIT.) The second...

Egeria launches second fund.(Funds)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Egeria, the Dutch mid market private equity firm, has received 250m [euro] from Bregal Investments for its second fund. Egeria Private Equity Fund II has a target amount of between 400m [euro] and 450m [euro], with a final close expected before...

Mowbray Capital launches European venture FoFs.(Funds)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Mowbray Capital, the UK headquartered firm founded in 2003, has launched what it believes is the first ever dedicated European venture fund-of-funds. The target size for Mowbray European Venture LP is between 100m [euro] and 300m [euro] and the...

Robert Fraser and Capital Partners join forces.(Robert Fraser Corporate Finance)(Capital Partners Corporate Finance)
May 1, 2004... Robert Fraser Corporate Finance and Capital Partners Corporate Finance have formed a partnership to advise the European mid market. The partnership will also provide funding through Capital Partners Group. The original business of Robert...

Candesic sets up due diligence unit.(News)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Candesic, the recently formed independent management consultancy based in London, has formed a healthcare due diligence unit. The group will be looking at investments of between 10m [euro] and 200m [euro], typically later stage biotech, medical...

Flynn joins Bregal Investments.(News)(Bregal Investments appointed Chuck Flynn)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Chuck Flynn, farmer global head of Deutsche Asset Management's private equity funds group, has been appointed head of Bregal Investments' 750m [euro] fund-of-funds programme. Bregal's investment strategy is to focus on mid-market buyout funds...

Vision Capital syndicates CS portfolio.(News)(CS Structured Credit Fund portfolio)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Vision Capital, the London-based firm which specialises in secondary direct portfolio transactions, has syndicated its 149m [euro] Vision Capital Partners IV Fund, which was set up to hold most of the former CS Structured Credit Fund portfolio....

Online service created for companies seeking investment.(News)(Cavendish Management Resources)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... A website where companies and entrepreneurs looking for funding can place their propositions was officially launched this week by Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), the small and medium enterprise (SME) advisory company. Usually...

Directories unite in Yellow Brick Road.(3i Group PLC)(Veronis Suhler Stevenson)
May 1, 2004... 3i and Veronis Suhler Stevenson have merged their three directories businesses to establish a pan European directories business. The firms jointly acquired the three directories businesses over the past two years in deals worth a combined 850m...

Life sciences do well.(News)(Venture capital increases in life sciences companies )
May 1, 2004... Venture capital in the US kept up a steady pace in the first three months of the year. Investments in the Q1 2004 totalled $4.6bn going into 618 companies, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers/Thomson Venture Economics/National Venture...

OION celebrates record year.(News)(Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network (OION) is celebrating a record year of fund raising for start-ups. In the year to March 2004 OION helped t8 companies raise 5m [pounds sterling], an increase of 2m [pounds sterling] on 2003. OION...

Nmas1 completes largest Spanish secondary buyout.(Exits)(Segur Iberica)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Quick view Nmas1 completes largest Spanish secondary buyout 3i exits Morris Homes in tertiary buyout Fineco Capital exits BFT Granville Baird sells Alukon Pinewood Shepperton plans float PAI sells AGZ stake ...

3i exits Morris Homes in tertiary buyout.(3i Group PLC)(Morris Homes Ltd.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... 3i has sold its interest in British house builder Morris Homes to the company's management board in a tertiary buyout, six years after 3i made its original investment. The Royal Bank of Scotland funded the buyout to the tune of 126.75m...

Fineco Capital exits BFT.(divestments of Fineco Capital)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Italian private equity firm Fineco Capital, advised by Alto Partners, has sold its 60% stake in BFT to Somfy International in a 94m [euro] deal. Total equity value of the transaction was 69.5m [euro], representing a return of 2.1 times the...

Granville Baird sells Alukon.(Exits)(Granville Baird Capital Partners)
May 1, 2004... Granville Baird Capital Partners (GBCP) sold its 62.2% share in German manufacturer Alukon to AXA Private Equity for an undisclosed sum. GBCP led a consortium of investors, which included a number of funds advised by Equity Capital...

PAI sells Diana Ingredients.(Exits)(PAI Partners)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Electra Partners Europe has acquired Diana Ingredients from PAI Partners in a 270m [euro] secondary buyout. Headquartered in Vannes, France, Diana Ingredients is a supplier of natural ingredients for the food and pharmaceutical industry....

Pinewood Shepperton plans float.(Pinewood Shepperton Studios Ltd.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Pinewood Shepperton, the film and television studio facilities company, has announced its intention to seek admission Io the official list of London Stock Exchange. The process is proceeding as expected and listing particulars have been issued...

PAI sells AGZ stake.(Exits)(PAI Partners)(AGZ Holding)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... UGI, the American energy distributor, has acquired complete control of AGZ Holding, the parent company of French gas distributor Antargaz, for 261.8m [euro]. The deal sees 70% shareholder PAI Partners and 10% shareholder Medit Mediteranea...

Barclays sells Salter Housewares.(Exits)(Barclays Private Equity)(Salter Housewares L.L.C)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Barclays Private Equity has made the first exit from its pan European mid-market buyout fund with the sale of Salter Housewares, a manufacturer of kitchen and bathroom scales to HoMedics, US-based personal wellness company, Barclays Private...

3i exits Early Learning Centre.(Exits)(Eagle Retail Investments)(Chelsea Stores Limited)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Eagle Retail Investments has acquired Early Learning Centre, the children's toy chain from its management and 3i for 62m [pounds sterling] in a secondary buyout. 3i bought the business from John Menzies in September 2001 for around 29.6m...

Rutland makes partial exit.(Exits)(Rutland portfolio company sold Rico)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Rutland portfolio company. The Music Group has sold its wholly owned subsidiary Rico holdings for $22.2m to JD'Addario & company. The Music Group was formed by Rutland in February 2003 to acquire the music instrument manufacturing business of...

GLSV exits Memory Pharmaceuticals through IPO.(Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp.)(Global Life Science Ventures)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Memory Pharmaceuticals, a portfolio company of venture firm Global Life Science Ventures (GLSV), began trading on NASDAQ on April 5 offering five million shares at $7 a share. The company was valued at $50m (41m [euro]) and UBS and SG Cowen...

Barclays PE completes Edotech sale.(Exits)(Barclays Private Equity)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Astron, UK business outsourcing group, has acquired Edotech from Barclays Private Equity, Barclays Bank and the Edotech management team for 130m [pounds sterling], generating an IRR of 60%. Edotech, based in Gloucestershire, UK, was created...

3i exits element 5.(3i Group PLC, Earlybird and IKB Private Equity sell parts)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... 3i, Earlybird and IKB Private Equity have sold their interests in German software distributor element 5. The company was bought by US competitor Digital River for $120m (101m [euro]), which may also pay an additional $2.5m (2.1m [euro]) in...

Investor sells stake in Fiskars.(Investor AB)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Investor has sold its entire holding in Fiskars through the sale of 3,731,197 A-shares and 1,012,800 K-shares. Investor CEO Markus Wallenberg said: "Fiskars has developed very well during the long period Investor has been involved as an...

Accent sells Tribon Solutions.(Accent Equity Partners)(Aveva Group)
May 1, 2004... Nordic mid market private equity firm Accent Equity Partners has sold Tribon Solutions to UK-headquartered Aveva Group for 19 [pounds sterling] (28m [euro].) Aveva, a UK listed engineering software and services company, has acquired a 100%...

VCs and AIM: the phenomenon of what have become as known as accelerated IP0s caused much excitement around the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) earlier this year and during 2003. The accelerated IPO could be used both by venture capitalists (VCs) and against them, but what other attractions does AIM offer VCs?(Buyouts)(initial public offering)
May 1, 2004... Those accelerated IPO deals, Northumbrian Water, Center Parcs, and this year Torex Retail and Centaur Communications, caused speculation as to the nature of AIM's relationship with VCs. Like Northumbrian Water and Center Pares, Centaur, the...

UK MBOs strong.(management buyouts)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Q1 2004 saw continued strong activity in the UK mid-market, according to figures released by KPMG's private equity group, which tracks UK buyouts with a value over 10m [pounds sterling]. KPMG recorded 28 transactions with a total value of 3.6bn...

LBO syndications arranged in April.(Buyouts)
May 1, 2004... QUICK VIEW Accantia Aliplast Baxi Bulgarian Telecommunications Company Clondalkin Diana Ingredients Dualwise Dynamit Nobel Galbani Global Solutions Kabel Deutschland LBC Linpac ...

Refinancings.(Buyouts)(Ani)
May 1, 2004... Akzo Nobel NIB Capital has won the mandate to arrange a 138.6m [euro] senior leverage recap facility for global printing inks company Akzo Nobel Inks. The deal will launch in May and senior debt to EBITDA will be about 3.5x. Nordic...

Private equity-backed takeovers subject to EU Competition Law.(Buyouts)
May 1, 2004... Pfizer's diagnostics operations Private equity backer: PPM Ventures and Triton Business description Diagnostics business Deal value: $575m Notified: 24/02/04 Provisional deadline: n/a Cleared: 23/03/04 PPM Ventures and Triton announce...

Secondary buyouts announced March/April.(Buyouts)(Illustration)
May 1, 2004... Secondary buyouts announced March/April Date of Company name Company business original deal & country description n/k Slobozhanska Ceramic brick ...

Buyouts with European targets March 29 to April 23, 2004.(Buyouts)(Illustration)
May 1, 2004... Buyouts with European targets March 29 to April 23, 2004 Target Date Target industry announced name sector 29/03/04 Croesus Financial Investment & commodity ...

Flynn joins Bregal.(People)(Bregal Investments appointed Chuck Flynn)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Chuck Flynn, former global head of Deutsche Asset Management's private equity funds group has been appointed head of Bregal Investments' 750m [euro] fund-of-funds programme. Bregal's investment strategy is to focus on mid-market buyout...

Coller appts in US.(People)(Coller Capital Ltd. appointed Rudy Scarpa)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Coller Capital has appointed Rudy Scarpa as a partner of the firm based in the New York office. He reports to Frank E Morgan II. Scarpa was previously a principal at Thomas H Lee Putnam Ventures. Prior to joining that firm he was a senior...

Sibony joins Activa.(People)(Activa Capital appointed Jerome Sibony)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Activa Capital has appointed Jerome Sibony as an investment analyst. He has four years' experience in private equity at Atlas Venture and has worked on investments in the field of media and communications. He is a graduate of French business...

CVC adds to board.(People)(CVC Capital Partners apoints Sir Ian Robinson and John sunderland)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... CVC Capital Partners has appointed Sir Ian Robinson and John Sunderland to the UK advisory board to advise on deals in the UK. Robinson has extensive industry experience in the utility and engineering sectors and is currently chairman of the...

Abingworth appts.(People)(Abingworth Management Inc. appointed Sarah Shackelton)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Abingworth Management has appointed Sarah Shackelton to expand Abingworth's relationships with key industry executives and entrepreneurs and to assist the firm's portfolio companies with their recruitment needs. She is based at the company's...

New Industri Kapital director.(Samir Kamal appointed)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Industri Kapital has strengthened its Swedish operations with the appointment of a new director in Stockholm. Samir Kamal will join the firm in mid August as a director and will be responsible for sourcing and managing new investments in the...

3i Nordic reshuffle.(Gustav Bard appointed)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... 3i has appointed Gustav Bard as managing director of 3i Nordic. Alan MacKay, a founding managing director of 3i's Nordic business, will move to a new role as a managing director in 3i's European buyout business, replacing Tom Sweet-Escott who...

Atlas Venture recruits.(Fred Destin appointed)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Atlas Venture has appointed Fred Destin as a principal focused on information technology investments. He will be based in the firm's London office. As a former partner of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein's OM Technology Investments group,...

Candesic's new team.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Candesic, has formed a six-strong healthcare due diligence unit based in London. The group will look at investments of between 10m [euro] and 200m [euro], typically later stage biotech, medical devices, medical services, and pharma...

Linklaters finance grows.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... 15 new partners based in Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and the UK have boosted Linklaters' global finance practice. Partners in the UK are: Neil Hamby (asset finance), Stephen Lucas (banking),...

Macpherson joins Hotbed.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Ewen Macpherson, former chief executive of 3i, has joined the board of private equity network Hotbed as a non-executive director. He will also become chairman of Hotbed's investment. committee. Gary Robins, chief executive of Hotbed, said:...

Lammas becomes sales director.(People)(at GMAC Commercial Finance)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... GMAC Commercial Finance (GMAC CF) has promoted Phil Lammas to UK sales director for asset based lending (ABL.) GMAC CF has restructured its senior management team with Lammas overseeing ongoing growth of its ABL division and David Arthur...

SG appoints.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... SG has appointed Chris Lovgren as director in its London-based leverage loan distribution team. He joins from UBS where he worked for four years as a director. Lovgren, working alongside fellow director Haresh Sheth, will focus on banks...

RBS restructures loans team.(People)(appointments)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... As part of the reorganisation of its loan distribution business, RBS has combined its leveraged and investment-grade loan sales forces and created a syndicate function. Lois Salter has been appointed to the newly created position of senior...

Graham leaves HBoS.(People)(Bank of Scotland )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Rob Graham has resigned from Bank of Scotland where he was a director of loan distribution in the structured finance business. Graham reported to the new head of loans distribution, David Gibson. Gibson replaced Willie Orr earlier this year...

Indigo opens in Paris.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Mezzanine finance provider Indigo Capital is opening its first overseas office in Paris. Cyril de Galea, who until now has been based in the firm's London office, will be based in Paris and will be joined shortly by Monique Deloire, who is also...

Add Partners expands.(People)(appointments)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Add Partners has appointed Martin Mackay as entrepreneur in residence. Mackay, a 15-year veteran of the European technology industry, was most recently vice president marketing & alliances EMEA, for Peoplesoft, a leader in enterprise software....

Linklaters builds Dutch team.(People)(appointments)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Linklaters has appointed Pim Horsten to its Amsterdam office. Horsten, formerly a partner at Allen & Overy, has over ten years' experience in a broad range of capital markets work including debt, equity-linked equities and derivatives, as well...

Palamon recruits.(People)(Palamon Capital Partners has appointed Tom Sommerlatte)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Palamon Capital Partners has appointed Tom Sommerlatte to its board of advisors. Sommerlatte is chairman of Arthur D Little's management consulting activities in Germany and Austria. Before joining Arthur D Little, he worked at a German...

Linklaters promotes.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Linklaters has invited 31 new partners to join the partnership, eight of who are corporate partners. The new corporate partners are from France, Germany, Hong Kong, Sweden and the UK. They include Bertrand Cardi (Paris), Pierre Tourres (Paris),...

New recruits at Altius.(People)(Altius Associates)
May 1, 2004... Altius Associates has hired two new professionals, increasing the size of its global investment team to 12. Brad Young joins the US team and Charles Magnay joins the group with responsibility for covering the private equity markets of Germany,...

Lloyd-Harris to Abingworth.(People)(Abingworth Management)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Abingworth Management has appointed Dr Genghis Lloyd Harris to its team. He will be based at the company's headquarters in London. Dr Lloyd-Harris was formerly a managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in the European equity...

New PwC PE head.(People)(PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. (London, England), private equity, Chris Hemmings)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Corporate Finance has appointed Chris Hemmings as head of its European private equity team. Based in London, Hemmings succeeds Peter Jacobs, who will focus on developing major corporate finance client relationships...

Lovells appoints partners.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Lovells has appointed 15 new partners with effect from May I and they include Arnt Goppert and Paul Mullen. Goppert (34) is based in the Dusseldorf office and specialises in M&A, private equity and corporate finance. He read law at the...

Broers to Warburg Pincus.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Sir Alec Broers has become a senior adviser to Warburg Pincus. He will work out of the London and New York offices and participate in the firm's investment activities, principally in the information and communication technology sector. Sir...

Dunne to ISIS.(People)(ISIS Equity Partners has appointed Steven Dunne)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... ISIS Equity Partners pie has appointed Steven Dunne. His responsibility will be for managing an unquoted portfolio of investments with a focus on strategy reviews, shareholder value and exit planning and execution. Dunne was previously...

Menzies to Walker Hamill.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Ian Menzies has joined Walker Hamill as head of its search practice. Menzies' experience of the private equity industry is both as a practitioner and as a search professional. He began his career with 3i plc and then became a founder director...

CEE law merger.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Roschier Hohnberg (in Helsinki, Finland), Raidla & Partners (in Tallinn, Estonia), Lejins, Yorgans & Vonsovics (in Riga, Latvia), and Norcous & Partners (in Vilnius, Lithuania) have entered into four-party cooperation to respond to clients'...

Hale and Dorr & WCP merges.(People)(Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering)
May 1, 2004... Hale and Dorr LLP and Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP are to combine in a merger of equals on May 1. Hale and Dorr is Boston-based and Wilmer Cutler Piekering is in Washington. Hale and Dorr managing partner William F Lee and Wilmer Cutler...

Olisa Reuters non-exec.(People)(Ken Olisa appointed to the board of Reuters plc )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Ken Olisa, chairman of Interregnum, the AIM listed technology merchant bank, has been appointed to the board of Reuters plc as a non-executive director. Olisa has over 30 years of business experience, particularly within the technology...

Global PE enjoys growth.(Data Room)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Global investment in private equity and venture capital in 2003 rose for the first lime in two years, up 43% to over $155bn, according to figures from 3i and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The growth in total buyout investment was mainly driven by...

US PE performance up.(Data Room)
May 1, 2004... After three years of negative returns and a challenging market, private equity performance is showing signs of stability. The total private equity asset class (venture capital, buyouts and mezzanine funds) posted a strong 18.3% performance in...

When does a fund raising go stale?(LP Corner)
May 1, 2004... European fund raising in 2003 continued its path of decline recording 37 final closes worth a combined 17.6bn [euro] compared with 72 fund closings worth 29.3bn [euro] in 2002, according to Almeida Research. This year has seen fund raising...

Buyout funds raised 01/01/2003-31/03/2004.(LP Corner)(Illustration)
May 1, 2004... Buyout funds raised 01/01/2003-31/03/2004 Total target Fund name No. of funds ($m) Permira Europe III 1 ...

French buyouts.(Overview)
May 1, 2004... France has traditionally lacked mega deals, and the comparatively low investment figures for 2003 are a resumption of normality. There was only one plus 1bn [euro] deal last year, the 1.1bn [euro] sale of building materials group Materis to LBO...

French venturing dips.(Overview)
May 1, 2004... 2003 was a mixed year for French private equity, and a pretty poor one for venture capital. At Association Francaise des Investisseurs en Capital's (the French private equity association) annual conference in Paris in early March preliminary...

VCTs: living in the shadow of share price.(VCTs)(Venture Capital Trust)
May 1, 2004... Good news for Venture Capital Trust (VCT) fund raising; the UK government has increased the income tax relief rate for VCTs from 20% to 40% for the tax years 2004/05 and 2005/06. In addition income tax relief will be paid directly to the...

Italian update.(Italy)
May 1, 2004... Massimiliano Talli, a lawyer at Monaco e Associati, notes that at present small-sized deals are not being considered by private equity firms as everyone seems to be chasing the larger transactions. According to Roberto del Giudice at AIFI (the...

Does branding apply to private equity?(Private equity brands)
May 1, 2004... Increasingly people talk about private equity brands, but ask them to define what they mean by a private equity brand and the answers range from the vague to distinct, and there is rarely a convergence of opinions. Part of the talk about...

Calendar.(Calendar)
May 1, 2004... Calendar 10-11 May The Fundamentals of Private Equity. London. +44 207915 5055 www.iir-conferences.com/privateequity 17-18 May Private Equity Portfolios: Risk Management,...

Seeking buyers: April.(Seeking buyers)(Illustration)
May 1, 2004... Seeking buyers April Seeking buyers includes listings of all European companies that have announced plans since March 29, 2004 until April 23, 2004 to sell divisions, stakes or their entire company. It also includes purported sales...

Announced deals: April.(Announced deals)(Illustration)
May 1, 2004... Announced deals April Announced deals includes listings of private equity and venture capital transactions involving European targets that were announced from March 28, 2004 to April 23, 2004. The listings are ordered by target nation,...