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Evening Standard and Top-Consultant in consulting joint venture     The Evening Standard and Top-Consultant.com have announced a partnership that will see a quarterly management consultancy special feature section run in the Evening Standard. The first quarterly special will run on the 27 February 2007.    Top-Consultant     Director Tony Restell commented: “In recent weeks there has been some very one-sided press coverage of the consulting industry. In striking this partnership with the Evening Standard, our aim is to provide some more balanced coverage of the UK consulting industry – and to talk     about all the positive ways in which consulting firms benefit the UK economy and many of our largest corporations. We also want to provide our clients with a new recruitment channel for reaching potential hires – and this new partnership allows us to offer print advertising as well as online     advertising solutions.”    Restell went on to explain how the initiative had come about. Our Evening Standard initiative will give the industry the chance to redress the balance and we shall be championing the accurate representation of the consulting industry.”        The quarterly specials in the Evening Standard are scheduled to appear in the 27 February, 15 May and 25 September editions – with the date for Q4 2007 yet to be confirmed.

Capgemini to raise €500m by selling new shares     Capgemini plans to raise at least €455m ($606m) through a new share issue to fund future expansion.    The approximately 10m shares the company plans to sell were priced at €44.50. The €461.1m they will raise could increase to €507.2m if the entire over-allotment option is exercised. The indicative share price announced earlier had been €43.87.     was over-subscribed and closed ahead of schedule.    Capgemini said in October that it is to buy Nasdaq-listed management consulting and outsourcing services provider Kanbay International Inc. for about US$1.25bn (€938m) and reiterated this week that it will fund that transaction with existing cash resources.    In 2003, the company purchased fellow French     company Transiciel, which was followed by the win of one of its largest contracts – the management of the UK government's computer systems network.    According to media reports, potential targets for Capgemini include Europe's fast-growing management consultants Aspiren, E-A, Xantus Consulting and Berkshire Consultancy.    Another possible     target is the Sage Group, a UK-based supplier of accounting and business management software to small and mid-sized businesses, the only technology company listed on London's FTSE 100 share index. The Newcastle-based company is soaring after last week's announcement of excellent full year pre-tax profit and revenue.           The company, which said it will use the proceeds to strengthen its balance sheet and possibly for acquisitions, said the tranche of the new stock reserved for institutional investors

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