Standard & Poor’s has warned of the ’extreme’ average price for a leveraged buyout, which has hit a record high in an aggressive market.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Lion Capital-backed lingerie retailer has bought another lingerie business from reality television investor Theo Paphitis.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Bank of Scotland Corporate has made its second deal of the week, funding a £55 million management buyout of a furniture company.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Permira’s takeover bid for EMI has been rejected, sending shares in the group up 3.25p to 271p today.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
A private equity consortium has closed one of Egypt’s largest private equity deals at $459 million, raising the hopes of locals that it will boost potential private equity investors’ confidence in the market.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
3i will buy VNU Business Media Europe from VNU, an information and media company, for €320 million, bringing the number of media businesses in the private equity company’s portfolio to eight.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Montagu portfolio company BSN has bolted on a stocking manufacturer in its second acquisition this year since completing its own management buyout in February.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
3i will buy VNU Business Media Europe from VNU, an information and media company, for €320 million, bringing the number of media businesses in the private equity company’s portfolio to eight.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Ferranti Capital, a Chinese private equity firm, has made its first investment outside China of £5.75m and is raising a fund to be listed on AIM later this year.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
ABN AMRO Capital has realised its seventh exit of the year through the trade sale of Dennis Eagle, a UK refuse vehicle company, for up to £110 million.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
