Nicholas Watson in Prague
Wed, 4th Aug -- Prague-based Arx Equity Partners' latest deal, a leveraged buyout of the largest independent Czech producer of mortars used in construction, is one of a series of succession-related buyouts that are becoming a prominent feature of Central Europe's private equity market.

Nicholas Watson in Prague
Tue, 31st Aug -- Alternative investments embrace a range of products from fine art to hedge funds. As the renewable energy sector develops rapidly across Europe, owning an alternative energy generator is becoming a very accessible and very lucrative example of one.

Guy Norton in Moscow
Tue, 31st Aug -- A breakaway group from Russian hedge fund Kazimir Partners led by Dmitri Kryukov has set up shop on its own as Verno Investment Management and is now drumming up money in Europe, the Middle East and the US.

Nicholas Watson in Prague
Tue, 31st Aug -- The global economic crisis was certainly unkind to Ukraine's major companies, but has proved something of a boon to private equity players who target this upper end of the country's corporate market.

Robert Smyth in Budapest
Tue, 31st Aug -- It might have taken a while to put together, but the New Hungary Venture Capital Programme and its eight new European Investment Bank-backed funds have made more than €160m available for small businesses located outside the Hungarian capital, with the managers of the various funds now eying up a string of investments.

Guy Norton in Budapest
Mon, 2nd Aug -- Financial sector opportunities in Hungary are coming into focus as private equity players seek to make fresh investments in the country's burgeoning insurance market.

Nadia Damon in Sofia
Tue, 31st Aug -- Gold has traditionally been a safe haven in times of trouble, so it's little wonder that over the last couple of years private investors and institutions alike have moved to shore up their portfolios with this most tangible of assets.