'We as Europeans clearly are well served if we all put emphasis on local supply of high-quality pharmaceutical products, including infection prevention and treatment,' says EQT’s Matthias Wittkowski.
'Lot of industries continue to use brown power, and they remain competitive, because they’re not being penalised sufficiently by CO2 pricing,' says Korpanec.
MiddleGround’s European office recently bought F1 transmission supplier Xtrac from Inflexion.
3i Infrastructure and its co-investors – funds managed by DWS and 3i Investments – intend to sell their stakes in waste management platform Attero to Ardian.
Lazeo is a family-owned provider of non-invasive aesthetic medicine services, including laser hair removal, injectables, body contouring and medical-grade facials.
Sureserve is a compliance and energy services group that Cap10 took private for £214.1m in April.
Ardian, Nordic Capital and ECP are among firms interested in the waste management and recycling sector.
Access Group, a portfolio company of Hg Capital, TA Associates and GIC, agreed to buy Guestline from The Riverside Company in July.
The buyer, Francisco Partners, is a San Francisco-based investment firm that partners with technology businesses.
‘I still believe it's one of the best investing environments that I can think of,’ said the private equity firm’s chairman of Europe.