Private Equity
The Apax- and Duke Street-backed DIY retailer is thought to have suffered from the UK’s retail slump.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
CVC faces a battle for the €1.4 bn Spanish retailer with Permira, the firm it outbid for UK department store Debenhams in 2003.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
London-based LBO firm BC Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in hotel and casino operator Hyatt Regency.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
If accepted by the Danish telecoms company’s shareholders, the €10 billion deal would be the largest private equity buyout yet seen in the Nordic region.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Nordic buyout firm has sold the Swedish television, internet and telephone company Com Hem to the The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Ingenious Media Active Capital hopes to raise £250 million through an IPO in order to acquire young media companies.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The UK venture capital firm is teaming up with Asian consultancy Intralink to provide its portfolio companies with expertise on the region.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The National Pension Reserve Fund intends to allocate 8 percent of its assets to European and North American private equity funds by 2010.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Sagard has acquired French connector company Souriau from the private equity arm of the AXA Group.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
ISIS Equity Partners is spinning out of F&C Asset Management to become a management-owned UK mid-market private equity firm.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
