Nordic private equity firm Industri Kapital is making its first investment this year, by buying most of the shares in a transmission equipment manufacturer owned by private equity firm CapMan.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Warsaw-based Enterprise Investors has sold a tiles producer to a Polish bathroom fittings company for $87m, in the first of three possible exits in a month.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Bear Stearns Merchant Banking has sealed its first deal, paying an undisclosed sum for two Latin American consumer finance businesses.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Blackstone has completed its second transaction in the healthcare sector in a month after raising £127.5m through the placement of half of its stake in Southern Cross Healthcare Group.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Mezzanine and preferred equity provider Hutton Collins is buying a 22 percent stake in the £33.7m management buyout and take-private of an insurance broker, which has been hit by falling insurance risk rates for three years.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Blackstone is adding a fourth media company to its portfolio with the $465m acquisition of Ushodaya Enterprises, an Indian newspaper publisher and television broadcaster.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
3i has made its second investment in two days as it returns to a third round of $125m fundraising for an Indian broadcaster alongside a US supplier of networking equipment for the internet and Oman Investment Fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Permira has made a bid for an animal feed company owned by CVC Capital Partners and PAI Partners, which would be its eighth investment in France.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Kenmore Private Equity has made its second investment since its formation in November and its first foray into the office space sector through the management buyout of London-based Avanta.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Lucio Ranaudo has joined UK buyout firm Bridgepoint’s Milan office after five years at L Capital.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
