EFG Hermes, an investment bank in the Arab world, is co-sponsoring the PPP Investment Summit Egypt. The summit, presented by Egypt’s Ministry of Finance, focuses on new public-private partnership opportunities for investors in Egypt’s infrastructure sector. Key officials from the ministries of finance, transport, housing and investment along with premier

Legal practice Norton Rose has advised UK private equity fund Impax Asset Management on the planned purchase of Epuron’s wind development and operating business in Germany and France. Epuron is a subsidiary of German TecDax-listed solar system manufacturer Conergy. The purchase agreement was signed on 9 December 2010. The financial

A private equity survey of general partners and limited partners by bfinance, a financial services consulting firm, shows a fall in expected internal rate of returns of five to ten per cent over the coming years.  Combined with expectations by over 81 per cent of limited partners of higher dispersion

TYRX, a company dedicated to the commercialisation of implantable medical devices designed to help reduce surgical-site infections associated with pacemakers and defibrillators, has raised USD20m in venture capital funding. The funding was led by new investor HLM Venture Partners, along with previous investors Clarus Ventures and Pappas Ventures. The financing

Matrix Private Equity Partners has invested in the GBP4m management buy-out of Faversham House Group. Faversham is a multi-media business that publishes B2B magazines such as Utility Week, Europe’s largest environmental website www.edie.net and stages the UK’s no.1 environmental exhibition, SustainabilityLive!. Matrix is investing GBP1.75m and will take a significant

Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm, has acquired Atkins Nutritionals, a weight control and nutrition brand. Atkins’ management team, led by chief executive Monty Sharma, will remain with the business and invested alongside Roark Capital in the transaction. Terms of the transaction were not released. The Atkins Nutritional

Czarnikow, the UK’s second oldest sugar trader, has advised Rio Vermelho, a Brazilian ethanol producer, on Glencore’s acquisition of a 76 per cent equity participation. The deal value was greater than USD80m.   Czarnikow, through its corporate finance division, was the sole adviser to Rio Vermelho, which is located in

Omnova Solutions has completed its acquisition of chemicals manufacturer Eliokem International from Axa Private Equity.  Omnova paid EUR227.5m for Eliokem, or approximately USD302m at current exchange rates, before subtracting Eliokem’s net debt and subject to working capital and capital expenditure adjustments.  The company expects the transaction to be neutral to