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Bauwert sells P&C fashion store to Warburg-Henderson

Bauwert Investment Group has sold the new Peek & Cloppenburg fashion store in Kassel to Warburg – Henderson Kapitalgesellschaft für Immobilien, a Hamburg-based real estate investment company.   The buyer of the new four-storey structure, designed by the Roller architectural firm, is a specialist for cross-European real estate funds. The

Perceva Capital raises EUR150m from institutional investors

Perceva Capital, the French private equity investor active in special situations, has raised EUR150m from over a dozen institutional investors in France, the United States, Europe and Asia. This fundraising will enable Perceva Capital to recapitalise, over the coming years, twelve or so companies that are facing complex operational or

Record-breaking quarter for exits from PE-backed buyouts

End of year results suggest the private equity deals sector has recovered following the financial crisis, with both the value and volume of deals and exits returning to, or exceeding, pre-crisis levels, according to latest figures released by Preqin. Some 811 PE-backed exits occurred in 2010, with an aggregate exit

Paul Marson, chief investment officer at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch

Comment: The CHF, just a stamp of excellence?

The turn of the year saw the CHF hit record highs. The trade-weighted exchange rate was up 15% in 2010, and is 30% higher from the start of the financial crisis in October 2007. Paul Marson (pictured), chief investment officer at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, examines the factors driving this

UNITE UK Student Accommodation Fund NAV up six per cent in 2010

UK student accommodation developer and manager the UNITE Group estimates the net asset value (NAV) of the UNITE UK Student Accommodation Fund to be GBP0.808 per unit as at 31 December 2010.   The figure reflects an increase of 1.1% during the fourth quarter and an uplift of 6.0% in

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Tiffany and Adobe on Bernheim, Dreyfus’s list of potential 2011 takeover targets

Paris-based M&A investment manager, Bernheim, Dreyfus, has unveiled research designed to uncover possible or potential bid targets during 2011. Among other names, the luxury jeweller Tiffany and software company, Adobe Systems, are seen as being particularly attractive. Tiffany & Co is a jewellery and specialty retailer whose principal merchandise offering

Praesidian Capital successfully exits Venio investment

Praesidian Capital, a provider of mezzanine capital for small and mid-sized companies, has successfully exited its investment in Venio. Praesidian’s exit was facilitated by Venio’s acquisition of certain divisions of The Keane Organization and the new financing associated with the transaction. Venio has been in the Praesidian portfolio since December

WCI Consulting sold to Indian trade buyer

WCI Consulting has been sold to TAKE Solutions, an Indian technology company with products backed by a strong domain expertise in Life Sciences and Supply Chain Management.   WCI Consulting is a leading Patient Safety and Compliance advisor to the Life Sciences industry. WCI founded pvnet and pvconnect, the industry’s

Viola Private Equity invests USD7m in Zend Technologies

Viola Private Equity has made a growth equity investment of USD7 million in Zend Technologies, a provider of software and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications on-premise and in the cloud.   Viola’s investment adds to the Company’s previous internal round raised from its existing investors, including

Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals and Celtic Therapeutics enter final agreement in ophthalmology

Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals (Resolvyx) and Celtic Therapeutics Holdings (Celtic Therapeutics), a successor firm to Celtic Pharma, have entered into a final agreement under which Celtic Therapeutics has acquired and licensed worldwide rights related to Resolvyx’s RX-10045, a late-stage program for the treatment of dry eye syndrome and other ophthalmic conditions.  

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