Our publications

Eyes on Growth - Edition 4

3i's latest "Eyes on Growth" newsletter provides an overview of activity across our international growth capital portfolio. The theme of this edition is 'supporting international growth'.

We have continued to develop our international network and in April 2011 we announced our expansion into Brazil with the recruitment of a well established Brazilian team led by Marcelo Di Lorenzo, previously of Standard Bank. This will add to our existing international private equity business and build on our presence in North America.

Approximately 20% of our investee companies generate revenues from Latin America, so the Brazilian team will also enhance the Group's ability to provide these companies with on the ground support. It will also enable our European and Asian portfolio to access the opportunities that the region presents.

This has also been a busy period of activity for 3i across all our areas of focus. 3i's Growth Capital Fund has made five new investments: TouchTunes in North America, GO Outdoors in the UK, WFCI and Loxam in France and BVG in India. We also have news of a number of successful exits and acquisition-led activity within our international portfolio, including Refresco and SLR. We also feature a case study on 3i portfolio company Labco's high-yield bond issue, let by our in-house banking team.