Robert Venes

Six years after raising its debut fund, the private equity and mezzanine debt investor has raised $700m for its second middle-market buyout vehicle.

The UK newsagent and convenience store operator has been sold to management and Bank of Scotland in one of Europe’s largest integrated finance-led secondary buyouts.

Intel Capital has teamed with Enterprise Investors for the second time to close its largest deal in Central and Eastern Europe to date.

The global buyout house has acquired children’s car safety seat company Britax Childcare in a £230 million carve-out from Britax International.

Netherlands-headquartered Gilde Investment Management has gone independent as part of a bid to grow its appeal to outside investors.

The increasingly attractive emerging Indian market has seen the close of another fund, this time from domestic PE firm Westbridge.

Ian Simm, the newly appointed CEO of environmental finance group Impax, is taking over at a time of growing interest in renewable energy. By Jonn Elledge.

Penta Capital has made its first entry into the UK sandwich chain market with a £39m secondary buyout of EAT from 3i.

The global buyout firm has held a $410 million close on a fund to invest in the Asian real estate market.

Candover has made 2.6x its investment in the €650m sale of aviation service group Swissport International to infrastructure and services firm Ferrovial.