Due to launch early next year, electronic secondaries trading platform Secondcap has hired former AIM head Martin Graham as chairman.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK-listed private equity firm has this week sold engine manufacturer MWM for €580m and exited its minority stake in Balco, a developer of balconies.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Just two weeks after hiring the former president of Visa, the firm has taken on the dean of global business graduate school INSEAD, Frank Brown.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
In H1 2010, buyout firms injected €15.1bn of capital into European companies, in part a result of increased interest in the consumer goods and retail sector.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
More than three-quarters of UK managers expect to exit at least half their domestic portfolio companies over the next year, a survey says.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK Takeover Panel has introduced a slew of new reforms which could make it more difficult for private equity firms to seize British companies.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Swedish mid-market private equity house Litorina, led by managing partner Harold Kaiser, has smashed its SEK2bn target for Fund IV.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity industry accounted for 73% of UK M&A activity in the first half of the year, its highest proportion on record.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The EU’s leading opponent to letting foreign private equity firms easily access Europe’s deep capital markets has softened its position.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
JPMorgan’s private equity arm has teamed with Turkish investment trust, Rhea Girisim, to acquire a 53.13 percent majority ownership of Netas.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
