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Unigrains is supporting the LE DUFF Group in its acquisition of the Panamar Bakery Group in Spain

La Prensa Etichette completes the acquisition of Scriba

New team member: Andrea Mormone (Principal)

Permira To Make Strategic Investment in Environmental Disclosure Leader CDP

New team member: Giuseppe Iademarco

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New team member: Stefano Vittorio Kuhn

Star Capital sgr has launched its fifth fund, Star V Private Equity, following an initial closing of €60M. Fundraising began in June 2024, and the final target is 200 million

Piovan, a Venice-based group controlled by Investindustrial, has announced the acquisition of 100% of Aasted, a Danish company specializing in processing systems for the confectionery industry

Neopharmed Gentili, an Italian pharmaceutical company controlled by Ardian and Renaissance Partners along with the Del Bono family, has issued a new €425M senior secured floating-rate bond maturing in 2033 to refinance

Cloov has closed a funding round of approximately €1M led by Style IT, the Fashion Tech program of CDP Venture Capital’s National Accelerator Network

Alkemia sgr invests in IDNTT through its PIPE fund with a €3M subscription commitment

X-nano, a startup spun off from the Italian Institute of Technology, has closed a €3.7M seed round led by MITO Tech Ventures, managed by MITO Technology. Private investors and Pietro Fiorentini S.p.A

Origine-SGR led X-nano’s €3.7M seed round to fund a pilot plant for sustainable synthetic graphite

Advent International, Nextalia and Tecno Holding relaunched their takeover bid for Tinexta and plan a voluntary tender offer to delist it from Euronext STAR Milan

Investindustrial has completed the merger between Officina Stellare and GATG, creating a group with over 75 million in revenue in the aerospace and defense sector

Eurazeo and Swiss Capital are financing Newman Holding with private debt instruments through Idinvest Debt and EPD funds

Apice S.r.l., a subsidiary of the Itago fund through Itago IV, has acquired Ars Movendi S.r.l., a Calenzano (Florence)-based company specializing in logistics for works of art

A piece on the history and culture of Amazon’s Fire Phone and Jeff Bezos, offering a retrospective look at the product’s failure

KKR launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, a platform reportedly worth over $10B to build AI data centers and related energy infrastructure. The article also mentions KIA, NVIDIA and Vistra, but no Italian company or Italy-specific transaction is described

Flos B&B Italia Group, a subsidiary of Investindustrial and Carlyle, has announced the sale of the Danish lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen to Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker Aktieselskab