SJF Ventures has held a final close on its $90 million for its third fund, raising more than three times the amount of its second fund, which totaled $28 million, the firm announced Thursday. Investors in the new fund include Citi, Deutsche Bank, MetLife, Prudential Financial, Cambridge Associates, Mercer Consulting, and Trillium Asset Management, SJF said in a press release.

Investment banks Deutsche Bank and Mainfirst are placing up to 2 percent in German chemical company Evonik at a fixed price of 32.20 per share, writes Reuters. The shares will be sold exclusively to institutional investors ahead of a public listing planned for Thursday in a private placement on behalf of the RAG foundation, a public-sector trust that will bear the liabilities of Germany’s wound-down coal mines, and private equity group CVC.

Don Birchenough is joining Deutsche Bank as a Managing Director and Americas Head of Media and Telecom Mergers & Acquisitions. He joins from Credit Suisse where he was most recently Co-Head of the Technology, Media and Telecom M&A group in the Americas.

After less than two years, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe is looking to exit Triple Point Technology, four sources tell peHUB.

US buyout firm KKR has hired Deutsche Bank‘s Diane Raposio as a director to work in its client coverage and capital markets teams in Australia, writes Reuters. The hire comes as private equity firms around Asia are expanding their debt product teams to fill a gap left by retreating European banks.

Danish outsourcing firm ISS has refinanced and amended and extended its debt pile to pave the way for a potential IPO, writes Reuters. Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Nordea and UBS were advising on the A&E as well as on the refinancing.

DB Private Equity & Private Markets said Monday that its DB Secondary Opportunities Fund II has raised $614 million. The target of DB SOF II was $500 million. New and existing investors include insurance companies, public and corporate pension plans and family offices across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. DB SOF II will buy private equity fund interests in the secondary market globally. DB Private Equity & Private Markets is the private markets unit of Deutsche Bank Asset & Wealth Management.

Quintiles Transnational Corp, a provider of contract research for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, is speaking to banks about a potential initial public offering, writes Reuters. JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank are among the banks vying for a role, writes Reuters.

Several senior executives, including co-head of private markets North America John Crocker, have departed Deutsche Bank’s asset and wealth management unit in the past few months.

BC Partners has started the placement of 6.9 million shares in German chemicals distributor Brenntag, writes Reuters. The share placement is organised by Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. (Reuters) – Financial investor BC Partners has started the placement of 6.9 million shares in German chemicals distributor Brenntag, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters [...]