Polish buyout firm Enterprise Investors has bought Komfort, the country’s largest retail chain, for €64 million.
Australian bank Macquarie has criticised the Alinta board for recommending a rival bid led by Babcock & Brown.
US buyout group TA Associates has made its latest acquisition in the healthcare sector, buying disease management company Alere Medical. It is the firm’s third deal in three weeks.
Cipio Partners has acquired the majority of Siemens Venture Capital Communications in one of the largest secondary direct portfolio transactions completed in the last few years.
The San Francisco private equity advisory firm has hired Adam Frieman from UBS for relationship management and liquidity management.
San Francisco-based Paul Capital Investments has hired Dana O’Brien, a Cornerstone Equity co-founder, to lead a New York-based programme for co-investment alongside the firm’s GP relationships.
Vintage Venture Partners, an Israeli fund of funds and secondaries firm, has closed its third fund at $125 million.
Index Ventures has led a consortium investing in the internet retailer, Ozon.ru, in partnership with Russia’s biggest private equity firm, Baring Vostok.
UK-based secondaries specialist Coller Capital has bought a 45 percent stake in a new independent venture fund launched by Shell, which will develop non-proprietary technologies.
Intermediate Capital has closed its fourth mezzanine fund with €2.25 billion of firepower - the biggest ever raised in Europe. The fund will invest in mezzanine and senior debt, and could also be used for equity co-investments.