Private Equity
Private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Cinven have won an auction to acquire Dutch cable television operator Casema from three other private equity firms for €2.1bn.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Menlo Park, California-based PE firm has reached an agreement to acquire WatchGuard Technologies, an internet security software and hardware developer, for $151m in cash.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Lone Star Funds, the Dallas, Texas-based private equity firm, has reached an agreement to sell restaurant chain Shoney’s to Centrum Equities, another Southern private equity firm.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
David Scopelliti, the former head of the State of Connecticut’s high-profile private equity programme, is moving to gatekeeper Pacific Corporate Group as a managing director.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Travel and real-estate company Cendant announced plans to sell its travel distribution services subsidiary Travelport—which includes its Orbitz and CheapTickets businesses—to The Blackstone Group for about $4.3bn in cash.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Hedge fund Sloane Robinson is forging into private equity with a ₤12m deal to help commercialise intellectual property created at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Oxford University.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
