Matthieu Favas is the editor of Agri Investor. He was previously the web editor of Infrastructure Investor, where he started in 2013 after a year as a reporter at Private Equity International. Prior to joining PEI he spent four years in the wine industry in London, Spain and Mongolia.
The buyout firms have sold Arsys to trade player United Internet for €160m, making roughly 1.5x on the deal thanks to prior dividend recaps.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The mid-market firm has started to rationalise its French operations ahead of an expected fundraise this autumn.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The US firm and the Canadian pension system will hold an equal stake in Pennsylvania-based CPG, trumping rivals in an auction that had reportedly drawn interest from Warburg Pincus, Berkshire Partners and TPG.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The acquisition of Danish-based e-conomic, the second online business services company bought by Hg this summer, comes a few months after the UK firm closed its latest buyout fund on £2bn.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
Triton’s acquisition of Alpine-Energie will help the company’s former owner, Spanish construction group FCC, offload part of its €7.9bn debt load.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The energy-focused firm has agreed to buy LLX, a logistics business owned by Brazil’s Eike Batista, as the country’s former richest man looks to divest parts of his embattled EBX conglomerate.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The appointment of David Robins, currently chairman of broker Oriel Securities, comes as the fund of funds starts to diversify its private equity investments.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The deal provides a healthy exit for Advent International, which took the home goods insurer private in 2007 for £523.9m.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The firm has bought German-based Alloheim from STAR Capital using its European fund - and it continues to bolster its senior operating team, most recently with the addition of a former P&G executive.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The firm, which held a €10.5bn first close on its latest fund last month, eyes a set of businesses that generates an aggregate €530m in annual sales.
1 min read · 19 September 2013
