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13.04.2010	Closing of the acquisition of the majority of shares in Austria Email Following the unqualified approval of the antitrust authorities, Buy_Out acquired 63,4% of the shares in Austria Email AG from UIAG. Austria Email, based in Knittelfeld, Styria, is one of the leading providers of warm water storage products based on solar and electric technologies and high quality special accumulators.
17.02.2010	Buy_Out takes over Austria Email Buy_Out Central Europe II Beteiligungs-Invest AG (Buy_Out), one of the largest independent investment funds in Austria, acquires the majority of the shares (63.4%) from Unternehmens Invest AG (UIAG) in Austria Email AG. The sales contract is final although the transaction is still subject to approval by the antitrust authorities. Austria Email is one of the leading providers of warm water storage products based on solar and electric technologies and high-quality special accumulators. The purchase price for the block of shares is about EUR 21 million.
20.01.2010	Global Equity Partners sells Greentube-shares to Novomatic-Group Long-term partnership: From early stage financing to trade sale Austrian Gaming company Novomatic AG and its British Astra Games Ltd. take over 70 percent of the online gaming company Greentube Internet Entertainment Solutions AG. Global Equity Partners Beteiligungs-Management GmbH, which has accompanied the gaming firm for nine years, has sold all shares hold by the fund HTA III Venture Beteiligungs-Invest AG.
27.10.2009	WertInvest offers comprehensive freehold apartments in Vienna's district "Landstraße" (PDF) Investors have the opportunity to buy "Jugendstil" apartments in the third Vienna district, Dietrichgasse 16. WertInvest will renovate the whole building and convert the attic. The apartments stand out due to their location near the "Wiener Prater" and the airport. Investors get a stable and long-term investment.
15.10.2009	CONSTANTIA PRIVATBANK AKTIEN- GESELLSCHAFT sells IMV Immobilien Management und Verwaltung GmbH The founder and CEO of IMV Immobilien Management und Verwaltung GmbH, Wolfgang Macho, takes over together with the financial partner Global Equity Partners 100% of IMV (Management Buy-out). IMV is Austria's largest independent property management company with customers in Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Romania.
07.10.2009	VARTA Micro Innovation GmbH will do research for batteries of the future Investment opportunity for private investors to invest in the new growth market fort the next ten years, energy storage The new research organisation VARTA Micro Innovation GmbH will do research in the area of rechargeable batteries. VARTA Micro Innovation GmbH is the result of a joint venture between VARTA Microbattery GmbH and Graz University of Technology. Private investors have the possibility to participate at VARTA Micro Innovation GmbH (atypical silent partnership) between October, 7 and November, 18, at a minimum subscription of EUR 5,000.
17.06.2009	Vienna Real Estate price 2009 goes to WertInvest and Jelitzka & Partner Immobilien WertInvest Beteiligungs- und Immobilienberatungs AG and Dr. Jelitzka & Partner Immobilien are the winners of the 24th Viennese „Stadterneuerungspreis". On Tuesday June, 16 the price was handed over by the WKO #Austrian Federal Economic Chamber#. Both companies were assigned for the project in the 4th Viennese district "Heumühlgasse 9".
26.05.2009	„Mariahilfer Straße 1" is called the new hallmark of WertInvest WertInvest Beteiligungs- und Immobilienberatungs AG, a big player in the Austrian Real Estate market since 1998, has new headquarters. The real estate object was heavily bombed during the Second World War. Now the house has regained its original state. The architect Arkan Zeytinoglu successfully revitalised the object and gave it back its specific architectural flair. The object has a positive effect on the Viennese cityscape.
17.03.2009	Science and Commerce: Cooperation between Global Equity Partners and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration This year's seminar case study is the further expansion of the portfolio company Chemson Polymer-Additive AG, a producer of polymer-additives in Carinthia. Together with finance and industry experts students will gain insights into actual business challenges. The cooperation with the university has been going on since 1999.
13.01.2009	Global Equity Partner sells its shares of flat cable producer I&T GmbH (PDF) The company, which has been in the portfolio since 2006, will continue its expansion path with the new owner, the former managing director Harald Reiszner.

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