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Venture Capital

Europe’s VCs enter 2025 with high hopes amid AI gold rush and IPO recovery

January 21, 2025

Many investors are predicting recovery for European VC in the year ahead.

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Restructuring

Distressed Debt: Hunkemoller offers Europe taste of creditor-on-creditor violence

January 20, 2025

This case always was going to be a major event in the European retstructuring space, with significant ramifications possible for LMEs down the road.

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Private Credit

European private credit adjusts to muted M&A, competitive backdrop

January 17, 2025

Europe’s private debt market participants face challenges due to sluggish M&A activity, but are adapting in response.

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Featured

How did Ardian race to a $30B secondaries fund close?

January 16, 2025

ASF IX is the largest secondaries fundraise globally to date.

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2024 Wrapped

Europe inked fewer, but bigger, M&A deals in 2024

January 16, 2025

European M&A saw a 3% decline in deal count but a 17% rise in deal sizes in 2024, driven by lower interest rates and the return of large transactions.

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Life Sciences

European life sciences kicks off year with deluge of VC capital

January 15, 2025

Less than a month into Q1, the sector has already raised more than half of Q4’s total deal value.

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Featured

Synthesia pulls in $180M for its AI video generation platform

January 15, 2025

The London-based company is now worth $2.1 billion, more than double its previous valuation.

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Direct Lending

Ares raises record €17B equity investment for European direct lending fund

January 15, 2025

Ares says it has raised the largest institutional fund in the global direct lending market to date, demonstrating the growing concentration of capital among the largest managers.

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CLOs

Janus Henderson launches European CLO ETF

January 15, 2025

Janus Henderson Investors has launched its first active fixed income ETF in Europe, which will primarily invest in European triple-A rated CLOs.

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Unicorns

Europe’s ‘soonicorns': Who will reach a €1B valuation in 2025?

January 9, 2025

Europe is expected to see an uptick in unicorn creation this year, but who will join the herd?

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Women in VC

European VC female founders dashboard

January 3, 2025

Our interactive dashboard dives into European investment trends for female-founded startups since the start of 2008, using data sourced from the PitchBook Platform.

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2024 Wrapped

European VC mega-rounds were rare in 2024—but hot startups still cashed in

January 2, 2025

The number of €100 million-plus VC rounds in Europe has fallen to its lowest level since 2020.

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2024 Wrapped

Italy sees the most PE deal growth among Europe’s biggest markets in 2024

December 23, 2024

The Netherlands saw a drop in PE deal activities

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2024 Wrapped

Ranking 2024’s top 10 PE buyout deals in EMEA

December 23, 2024

Private equity buyouts in the EMEA region recovered in 2024, with two of the deals ranking among the decade’s largest.

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2024 Wrapped

PE take-private value rebounded in 2024 amid London exodus

December 20, 2024

2024 has been an active year for PE-led take-privates in the UK—let’s take a look back at the highlights.

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2024 Wrapped

Hot or not: Where European VC funding went in 2024

December 20, 2024

Europe is set for a third consecutive year of decline in VC dealmaking.

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2024 Wrapped

5 firms secured over half of EMEA’s €114B buyout fundraising record

December 20, 2024

While record amounts are being raised, fewer buyout funds are closing in EMEA.

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2024 Wrapped

Who are this year’s most active investors in European VC?

December 19, 2024

Enterprise Ireland has topped the list for a second consecutive year.

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