Sep 17, 2013 | Brazil, Latin America, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch Sept 17 Earlier this year, when Rocket Internet announced a new injection of $500 million into its Germany-based startup incubator, co-founder Oliver Samwer told me that a large focus for it would be emerging markets like Latin America. Today comes some...
Sep 17, 2013 | News, Western Europe
LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – BC Partner’s German pharma company Aenova has successfully raised a new 130 million euro ($172.37 million) leveraged loan to back its planned acquisition of contract development and manufacturing firm Haupt Pharma, banking...
Sep 17, 2013 | News, Western Europe
STOCKHOLM/LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) State-controlled Finnish utility Fortum has launched a sale of its power grid in Finland, which could fetch around 1.5 billion to 2 billion euros ($2.67 billion), four people familiar with the matter said. Last week, information on...
Sep 13, 2013 | News, Western Europe
Reuters STOCKHOLM, Sept 10 Swedish private equity firm EQT has agreed to buy Finland’s largest healthcare services company Terveystalo from British peer Bridgepoint, EQT said in a statement on Tuesday. A person familiar with the deal said the price for...
Sep 13, 2013 | News, Western Europe
Reuters LONDON Sep 6 Impax Asset Management said one of its energy funds had agreed to buy two wind power projects in Finland, its first investment in a country where the market is just starting to grow. The sellers are Finnish utility Fortum, with 51 percent, and...
Sep 11, 2013 | News, Western Europe
Tech Crunch Sept 11 Roaming the noisy byways of TechCrunch Startup Alley I found a startup today that plans to create a new kind of mobile payment and loyalty platform. Yoyo has today – at Disrupt SF – announced it’s raised $1.2 million in a seed round to launch a...
