Fulcrum Group and Butterfield Fund Services (BFS) today announced an agreement to merge the two businesses to create Butterfield Fulcrum Group (BFG).

Fulcrum Group, a leading global administrator for the hedge fund and alternative asset management industry, today announced that Jill M. Considine has been named Chairman of the Board of Directors.

3i, Europe’s leading mid-market private equity firm, has agreed to sponsor a professorship at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, to further research and education in the field of private equity.

3i Group plc (“3i”), a leading global private equity firm, has announced it has raised US$1.2 billion for its 3i India Infrastructure Fund (“the Fund”), exceeding the US$1 billion target by 20%.

3i has agreed to divest its stake in leading German cleantech company hte AG to BASF.

Preliminary agreement for the sale of the 51.7% stake held by 3i, and funds managed by 3i, in Giochi Preziosi, the leading Italian toy company

3i, a world leader in private equity, today announced that it has sold its 55% stake in Ezurio, a leading manufacturer of Bluetooth solutions, in a $25m transaction to Laird Technologies, Inc...

Effective 1st February 2008, Klaus Weber will lead 3i Germany's Growth Capital investment team. 41 year old Weber succeeds Andreas Kochhaeuser, who will leave the firm to pursue other projects.