In the first exit from Fund II, the lower mid-market investor has sold Teaching Personnel to Graphite Capital for £45m.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Andreas Boesenberg has left alternatives firm Wermuth Asset Management to join the private equity arm of Russian financial services giant VTB Group.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
AAC Capital has booked a 3.8x return on its investment in restaurant chain TGI Friday’s UK, which it made while still captive at ABN AMRO.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Research suggests listed SMEs currently offer a ‘compelling’ opportunity for private equity-backed acquisitions, due to a combination of continually low valuations and increasingly available debt.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The US development finance institution has backed Karachi-based JS Private Equity as it raises its second fund.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
More private equity capital was raised in the first quarter of 2010 than throughout the whole of 2009, according to a GVCA report.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The emerging markets investor has purchased a credit card processor as it seeks to consolidate the rapidly growing electronic payments market in Africa.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
With plenty of institutional money ‘on the sidelines’, the exit environment for private equity firms in the desert kingdom is improving, according to Dubai-based Al Masah Capital.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Europe’s largest mezzanine capital provider to LBOs has nearly €2bn in investment capacity, including a €780m credit facility.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Prometheus Capital is led by Levan Vasadze, a former vice president of Sistema, Russia’s largest public diversified financial corporation.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
