Eurazeo has completed a EUR80 million investment from its China Acceleration Fund in DORC (Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center), a specialist in the area of vitreoretinal surgery. This is the fund’s first investment. The aim of the fund is to invest in French and...
sssdsThe barbarians are crying foul. For decades, private equity firms have been seen as the aggressive interlopers, using sharp practices to prevail in brutal corporate contests. Now that is being turned on its head. In a wave of company restructurings...
The Untitled Ventures, a seed and pre-seed stage VC investor that focuses on breakthrough technologies from Eastern Europe, is raising a new fund which will invest in early growth stage tech companies in the CEE region. The firm has offices in London, Moscow and Riga,...
Pan-European asset manager Tikehau Capital’s subsidiary Ace Management has held a EUR630 million first close of Ace Aero Partenaires, a fund focused on helping companies in the aviation industry that have been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The initiative...
Private equity firm Permira bought a 60% stake in the children-focused business of language tutor EF Education First, valuing it at around $1.5 billion, according to two sources with direct knowledge. Permira and EF declined to comment. The sources, one of whom... 