Chicago-based Madison Dearborn Partners has bought Nuveen Investments, the biggest manager of closed-ended mutual funds in the US, for $5.75 billion. The deal would be the biggest leveraged buyout of an asset manager to date.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
French private equity firm Astorg Partners has bought a 35 percent stake in Webhelp, France’s third biggest provider of client communication services, from Barclays Private Equity for about €40 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
London-based Advent Venture Partners has expanded its life sciences team with the recruitment of two new partners – both former biotech entrepreneurs.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
New York-based GSC Group, an alternative asset management firm that pursues credit-driven strategies, has raised €300 million for its latest defensive collateralised debt obligation fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
French private equity firm Astorg Partners has bought a 35 percent stake in Webhelp, France’s third biggest provider of client communication services, from Barclays Private Equity for about €40 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
French private equity firm Astorg Partners has bought a 35 percent stake in Webhelp, France’s third biggest provider of client communication services, from Barclays Private Equity for about €40 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Lehman Brothers, the US bank, has recruited Jayanta Banerjee from ICICI Venture to become managing director of the bank’s Mumbai private equity activities.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Venture capital investment in young European companies declined in Q1 2007 – down to €1.4 billion. What are some of the challenges that young European businesses face when attracting VCs?
2 min read · 04 January 2013
A private equity consortium led by Providence Equity Partners is reportedly preparing a $15 billion bid for UK cable business Virgin Media.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Beringea has backed the management buyout of TV and DVD maker Eagle Rock from European buyout firm Hg Capital – and it has led a £3 million investment in a UK data management company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
