Robert Venes

Shares for Partners Group Global Opportunities Limited, which began trading on AIM yesterday, closed the day at €10.25, above its launch price of €10.

DeepStream Technologies, a Welsh embedded sensor company, has raised £8.1m in second-round financing from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and 3i.

The Madrid-based private equity firm has held a final close on its third fund, passing its original target of €200 million.

The Nordic investor has been busy in the last week with the acquisition of two Swedish healthcare companies.

3i, a London-listed private equity firm, is planning a buyout of residential housing company Countrywide, which could be valued at up to £880 million.

Partners Group, a Swiss listed fund manager, has appointed Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns to launch the listing of a €400m AIM-listed fund investing in Europe, North America and Asia.

Despite being launched over 30 years ago, Sophia Antipolis in France doesn’t yet have the high profile of other clusters like Silicon Valley in the US and Cambridge in the UK - but that doesn’t mean it deserves to be written off. By Robert Venes.

David Kelting, the joint head of Barclays Capital’s sponsor origination team, has been promoted head of European leveraged finance, replacing Chris Coles, who is going on sabbatical.

3i and Star Capital Partners have sold Swiss aircraft maintenance company SR Technics to a consortium of investors from the United Arab Emirates for €1 bn.

Bridgepoint has made more than twice its money in the £86m secondary buyout of NES, a specialist recruitment firm, to Graphite Capital.