Centurion Capital has achieved a first and final closing of its debut private equity fund on €150m. The fund will aim to exploit the convergence of Europe’s economies and expansion of the European Union.
The Chicago-based private equity house has closed its second fund garnering commitments from Goldman Sachs and General Motors Investment among others.
The UK mid-market private equity firm has appointed a new business development manager to focus on intermediaries.
Alpinvest, CalPERS and the EBRD are among the institutions that have signed up for Enterprise Investors’ fifth and largest fund to date.
Opera, the Italian private equity firm that invests in lifestyle and luxury goods firms, has announced a partnership with the private equity arm of US investment bank Bear Stearns Cos.
Three venture capitalists, combining talent from NEA, Trinity Ventures and Battery Ventures, have teamed up to back early-stage tech businesses.
Bono, the singer for rock group U2, will reportedly be a managing director at Silicon Valley ‘venture buyout’ firm Elevation Partners, launched by former Silver Lake Partners co-founder Roger McNamee.
The US-headquartered private equity firm has realised almost 4x its original investment in one of the largest European technology transactions of 2004.
Atlas Venture, the international early-stage venture capital investor, has announced that Jeff Fagnan will join its Waltham, Massachusetts office as a partner in August.
The New York-based fund has agreed to sell the company to Softbank for ¥143.3 billion.