Liquidity is improving both in entering private equity investments and coming out of them, according to a report by Neuberger Berman. Going in liquidity may be characterized by the increased availability of financing for well-capitalized transactions; more equity for transactions; co-investment equity in leveraged buyouts; and the potential for formation

Private equity firm Riverstone Holdings has acquired Seajacks International for a total cash consideration of USD207m. Great Yarmouth, UK-based Seajacks currently owns and operates two self-propelled jack up vessels that install offshore wind turbines and perform a number of niche operations for the North Sea oil and gas industry.  Riverstone

Ten companies backed by LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, have won places on a league table ranking Britain’s 100 private equity-backed mid-market companies with the fastest growing profits over their last two financial years. The companies include fake tan supplier St Tropez (no 77) and InterContinental

Ursataur Capital Management and BASF Venture Capital have invested USD6m in Quantiam Technologies, which develops coating products for extreme-operating environments and energy-related applications. Quantiam has developed three key coating families for surfaces of complex shapes that are applied to petrochemical furnace coils to reduce carbon formation, to oil and gas

A team at Mourant du Feu & Jeune has advised on the Jersey legal aspects of the establishment of Resource Eastern European Equity Partners I, a private equity fund targeting mid-cap agribusinesses in Poland as well as in other EU member states in Central and South-Eastern Europe. The fund was

Clean Filtration Technologies has concluded a first closing of USD1.5m in a new round of financing led by The Dow Chemical Company through its venture capital group. An additional and final closing is anticipated in 2010 that will bring the total investment to USD3m. CFT is the company behind the

Climate Change Capital Private Equity, a EUR200m fund dedicated to investments in clean technology companies, has led a convertible bond issue in Metallkraft, a Norwegian company that has developed a patented process to recycle spent slurry used in cutting solar silicon wafers. Climate Change Capital subscribed for NOK85m (EUR10.3m) of

Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm providing buyout and growth capital to companies in the financial services industry, has completed the final closing of Lovell Minnick Equity Partners III. The fund surpassed its USD350m target by raising USD455m from institutional and private investors. The fund focuses on middle market