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PRINT THIS PAGE Dutch AlpInvest spins off mid-market buy-out business25/10/2005. Source: AltAssets. 
 Netherlands-based private equity investor AlpInvest Partners has spun off its mid-market buy-out business, which will be renamed Taros Capital. The new firm will be independent as of 1 January 2006.
The separation of the two businesses will allow AlpInvest to focus on primary and secondary fund investments, co- investments and mezzanine investments.
Taros Capital will continue the management of AlpInvest's lead buy-out investments in the Benelux and Germany. Taros Capital will also be able to raise money from third-party investors.
The entire buy-out team will move to the new firm, which will have offices in Amsterdam, Antwerp and Frankfurt. Taros Capital's managing partners are Alexander van Wassenaer, Paul Lamers, Jan Moulijn and Christian Bächle.
Van Wassenaer said, 'Over the past few years, the German and Benelux buy-out market has become more mature resulting in an increasing deal flow. We are in an excellent position to pursue these opportunities pro-actively, jointly with company owners and managers.'
Volkert Doeksen, managing partner and chief executive officer of AlpInvest, added, 'The buy-out team has developed into a powerful player in the buy-out market and is ready to profile itself independently in the market.'
AlpInvest was formerly known as NIB Capital Private Equity. It was established in 1999 as a result of the initiative of the firm's two sponsors, the Dutch pension funds ABP and PGGM, to become the exclusive manager of their private equity interests.
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