EQT, Verdane to merge Confirmit and FocusVision

Private equity firms EQT and Verdane have announced the merger of their respective portfolio companies FocusVision and Confirmit.

Insight Partners helps create one of 2021’s first tech unicorns through huge Series B investment round

Private equity house Insight Partners has created one of 2021's first tech unicorns through a huge Series B investment in digital product building software specialist Quantum Metric.

CVC taps €16.4bn Fund VII to buy Lone Star portfolio business Stark Group

Private equity major CVC Capital Partners has tapped its €16.4bn seventh flagship fund to buy European heavy building materials distributor Stark Group from Lone Star Funds.

EQT, Verdane reveal move to merge survey, market research portfolio businesses FocusVision and Confirmit

Private equity pair EQT and Verdane have revealed a planned merger of their respective portfolio companies FocusVision and Conformit.

Hamilton Lane launches fund targeting wider investor group

The alternative asset manager’s new fund offers high-net-worth investors access to private-market investments for as little as $50,000

Carlyle launches sustainable loan for Siemens gearing carve-out

Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and UniCredit have launched the buyout funding for Carlyle’s €2bn purchase of Flender, a company making wind turbine gearing, from Siemens. On offer is a €1.045bn term loan 'B' in

TP Icap sets terms on rights issue

TP Icap, the interdealer broker, has launched its £315m rights issue to partially fund the acquisition of Liquidnet.

Blue wave euphoria washes out Capitol Hill riots

Amid riots on Capitol Hill, the blue wave finally arrived. Georgia’s two run-off elections gave the Democratic Party 50 seats in the US Senate, and the majority, as Kamala Harris will hold the deciding vote

HSBC's Asia ambitions remain after Enns leaves

HSBC’s aims to boost market share in investment banking and rebalance towards Asia remain intact despite the resignation of one of its most senior lieutenants. But 2021 must be about execution, writes David Rothnie.

JP Morgan’s Darrort off to Paris in post-Brexit relocation

Amélie Darrort, co-head of the euro medium term note desk and head of French public sector debt capital markets at JP Morgan, will be relocating from London to Paris in the summer as part of

Flurry of Uzbek corps set to debut, diversification on horizon

Diversification has taken hold in central Asia's Uzbekistan, which over the last two years has started its pivot towards international capital markets. According to sources, a plethora of debut deals is expected to hit markets

Capital markets reform the engine of Uzbekistan’s transformation

An ambitious and multifaceted reform programme is underway to take an already sound economy and open it to international markets

Sofinnova et al. in €35m series-C round for CorWave

BPI France, Novo Holdings, Seventure Partners, Sofinnova Partners and Ysios Capital have significantly increased their stakes in France-based medical device developer CorWave in a €35m series-C funding round.

Waterland's Netgo bolts on Arxes-Tolina

IT service Netgo, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity, has acquired Germany-based Arxes-Tolina.

Investcorp-backed Impero acquires Netop

Investcorp Technology Partners portfolio company Impero has wholly acquired software developer Netop.

Goldman Sachs warns of double-dip recession for UK on third lockdown

The US investment bank was optimistic that the economy will pick up 'strongly' in the spring

Bankers hopeful of M&A rights issues despite fresh lockdowns

Europe faces more months of Covid-19 lockdowns as governments across the continent try to quell a rising tide of infections. Equity bankers are hopeful though that the restrictions will not prevent them from raising equity

KKR Expands Real Estate Industrial Portfolio in Southern California with New San Diego Acquisition

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- KKR, a leading global investment firm, today announced the acquisition of Three Piper Ranch, an industrial distribution property consisting of two buildings totaling approximately 330,000 square feet in San Diego, California. The

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