Palamon Capital Partners, a European mid market private equity firm, has sold Movie Park Germany to Parques Reunidos, an entertainment operator based in Madrid, for an undisclosed amount.  Movie Park Germany, Germany’s third largest theme park, is the remaining asset of the Star Parks Group, a holding company created by

HarbourVest Global Private Equity has placed 4,763,208 placing shares pursuant to the secondary placing announced on 13 May at a price of USD5.75 per share. This follows its recent admission to the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange. J.P. Morgan Cazenove and Oriel Securities are the joint brokers.

Origo Partners’ portfolio company R.M. Williams Agricultural Holdings, the Australian agricultural company focused on acquiring, developing and operating prime farmland, has raised further equity funding. In a series of recent transactions, R.M. Williams has entered into arrangements to place a total of AUD45m worth of common stock. The equity raised

Alpha PB, a division of SecureVest Financial Group, will use J.P. Morgan Clearing as custodian and clearing agent beginning 1 June 2010.  Alpha PB provides front-end execution, portfolio management and a risk management platform supporting a wide range of assets including equities, options, fixed income and futures products.  Alpha PB

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, a finance company providing venture debt and equity to venture capital and private equity-backed technology and life science companies, has received final agency committee approval by the US Small Business Administration for a second Small Business Investment Company license. Hercules expects that the SBIC license will

The Association of Investment Companies is now publishing enhanced venture capital trust data on its website. The new enhanced data now shows the following: – The last reported NAV, as published by the company – The date of the last reported NAV – The Morningstar adjusted NAV – Discount/premium data based on the Morningstar

MerchantBridge, a direct investment and private equity company focused on Middle East investments, has been awarded an existing cement plant contract under a 15-year lease in the Kerbala Governerate, 80 miles south west of the capital Baghdad. The contract was awarded by the Government of Iraq’s Ministry of Industry and

Private equity is a hot topic for European family offices, with 57 per cent considering increasing their exposure to private equity this year, according to research by LPEQ, the group of European listed private equity companies. The study of 50 family offices across Europe shows they are looking to access

As the world’s largest oil producer Saudi Arabia holds an immense amount of potential as it builds a broad-based economy and continues to liberalise and modernise its business climate, a private equity leader told participants at a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ahmed Heikal, founder and chairman of Citadel Capital,