In an effort to trump a £748m preliminary agreement SVG reached with rival suitors Goldman Sachs and CPPIB, HarbourVest has also offered to buy the London-listed private equity investor's entire portfolio, but for at least £783.1m.
3 min read · 10 October 2016
HarbourVest is giving shareholders more time to consider its offer after SVG said it planned to sell its entire portfolio to Goldman Sachs and CPPIB for around £748 million.
2 min read · 07 October 2016
News the pair is offering to buy all of SVG comes barely a day after the London-listed private equity investor reached an agreement ‘in principle’ to sell half its portfolio to two other buyers.
2 min read · 05 October 2016
Shares in the London-listed private equity investor, led by CEO Lynn Fordham, fell by over 3% to 652 pence at mid-morning, with just one day to go before HarbourVest’s 650p-a-share final offer expires.<br />
4 min read · 05 October 2016
The two firms have agreed to acquire 50 percent of SVG’s portfolio with just over a day and a half to go before shareholders must decide whether to accept a rival offer from HarbourVest.
3 min read · 04 October 2016
The US-based private markets investment firm noted that SVG has missed its own deadline to update the market on talks with potential rival bidders.
1 min read · 04 October 2016
A shareholder in the company since July 2014, the Hong Kong-based private equity firm bought TA Associates’s majority stake as it looks to expand the brand in Asia and across the globe.
2 min read · 03 October 2016
The London-listed private equity investor, the target of a £1bn unsolicited bid from HarbourVest, said it is in ‘detailed’ talks with the Goldman group just four days before HarbourVest’s first close deadline.
1 min read · 03 October 2016
In its defence document published Thursday, the London-listed private equity investor repeated its recommendation that shareholders reject HarbourVest’s 650p-a-share offer.
2 min read · 29 September 2016
PEI weighs up the possibilities, using sister title <span class="ITALIC">Secondaries Investor</span>’s SI 30, a ranking of the world’s top secondaries firms by capital raised in the past five years, as a starting point.
6 min read · 28 September 2016
