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Toby Mitchenall
The listed private equity investor revealed its first write-down in seven years this morning. However, the group’s shares rose in early trading as investors reacted positively to the firm’s interim results statement.
The emerging markets specialist has executed another African PIPE deal, this time taking part of Tunisia’s largest listed company.
The US private equity firm will add a second struggling German bank to its portfolio, purchasing a 91 percent stake in business bank IKB, which entered into an 'existential crisis' in July 2007.
The London-based private equity firm has diversified its buyout business with the purchase of 50 percent stake in Indicus Advisers.
The former European Acquisition Capital partner joins Palamon to focus on the UK.
The French alternatives firm has smashed its initial fundraising target of €300m against a difficult market backdrop, a week after selling a stake in the management company to Spanish firm N+1.