Thomas H. Lee and CIVC will reap a huge profit in the sale of TransWestern Publishing, a US yellow pages publisher, to London’s Yell Group.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Michael Eisenberg has joined early stage tech investor Benchmark Capital as a general partner in the Israel office.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The San Francisco firm is leading an $85m equity investment in a new, all business-class airline that will start flying trans-Atlantic routes beginning this fall.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners has sold Australian Pacific Paper Products for A$75m, about three times the firm’s initial investment.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The New York-based private equity firm has named three new partners to its royalty and secondary funds.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The New York private equity firm has agreed to Cendant’s marketing services division, a business line that was the site of hundreds of millions of dollars in accounting fraud for the conglomerate.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
In the first deal to be made from its latest $3.3bn global buyout fund, Advent International has agreed to buy drilling equipment and services provider Boart Longyear from Anglo American.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
A recent survey conducted by the Institute for Private Investors has shown for a third year in a row that wealthy families are choosing alternative investments over stocks.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Following a 2003 policy change in the way it deals with its intellectual property, the computer giant this week launched Microsoft Intellectual Property Ventures, which will work in conjunction with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to license 20 technologies to startups and small companies.
3 min read · 30 December 2012
