Foresight Group has made an addition to its solar team, appointing Federico Giannandrea as investment director, where he will be responsible for originating, structuring and executing solar photovoltaic transactions.

NVM Private Equity has hired Dominic Ely as part of its regional investment team. Ely will be responsible for generating new deals and managing NVM’s portfolio in the south of England.

Investment bank Bryan Garnier & Co has hired Guido Mengelkamp as a partner and head of technology and renewable energy corporate finance.

Turnaround investor Endless has sold heavy engineering business DavyMarkham to Indian engineering and construction giant IVRCL, banking a 10.5 times return on Endless’s original investment.

Senior lenders to UK laser eye surgery Ultralase, backed by 3i, have taken control of the group.

Candover, the private equity firm that abandoned its most recent fundraising, said the value of its assets, especially oil service company Expro International, had rebounded by the end of 2009.

Speed Check Services (“SCS”), the traffic management company, has secured £9m (€10m) of development funding from LDC to finance its expansion strategy.

A group of private equity firms have shown interest in companies that Royal Dutch Shell wants to sell to fund a $28bn (€20.5bn) capital spending push.

T-Venture has made an undisclosed investment in Lantiq, a next-generation access and home-networking technologies company.

Olivier Schuepbach has left Wellington Partners, having served as a principal at the firm.