Toby Mitchenall

The MENASA-focused firm will use the new capital to seed new funds and possibly make strategic acquisitions.

The €10bn listed Italian toll road operator has made investments in Chile, Brazil and India amounting to more than 800km of road during 2009. It will only accelerate its overseas investment activity, however, when it has ‘greater financial flexibility', says chief executive officer Giovanni Castellucci.

More than 100 participants from the private equity industry spent Friday digging, building and painting as part of a Private Equity Foundation volunteer day in London’s East End.

The alternatives giant has completed its merger with its listed affiliate KPE. From tomorrow its shares will be traded on Euronext under the name KKR & Co.

The UK-based alternatives firm closed its first solar vehicle in July on €35m.

Silverfleet Capital, the European mid-market firm, has paid €212.5 million (€247 million; $351 million) to acquire Kalle, a maker of synthetic casings for sausages based in Germany, from fellow mid-market player Montagu Private Equity. A syndicate of lenders led by the Bank of Ireland provided a €133 million debt package for the acquisition. Sausage casings: […]

The UK-based private equity firm is looking to sell the business that supplies safety equipment to armed forces around the world.

San Francisco-based Probitas Partners has capitalised on the move by hiring two of Deloitte’s former team to bolster its European business.

Shaun Mays replaces Mark Woodall at the helm of low carbon-focused private equity firm Climate Change Capital just as it begins raising a €500m vehicle. Prior to joining CCC in October 2008, he was the head of Deutsche Asset Management’s RREEF Infrastructure Investments.

Shaun Mays replaces Mark Woodall at the helm of low carbon-focused private equity firm Climate Change Capital just as it begins raising a €500m vehicle. Prior to joining CCC in October 2008, he was the head of Deutsche Asset Management’s RREEF Infrastructure Investments.