The US-based private equity firm is to expand its European activities with new offices in Spain and Portugal in 2006.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Private equity funds investing in Europe raised €25.4 billion in 2004, with non-UK funds accounting for nearly half the total, new research says.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
CVC Capital Partners, Europe’s largest private equity investor, has agreed to purchase a majority stake in Formula One Group from Bayerische Landesbank and the Ecclestone family trust for an undisclosed sum.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Armed with its new €5.8bn buyout fund, pan-European LBO house BC Partners has hired Nikos Stathopoulos from Apax and Giampiero Mazza from Englefield.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Denmark’s largest limited partner has confirmed a sizeable commitment to Apollo Management’s new LBO fund, a vehicle looking to raise $10bn.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Stockholm-headquartered private equity specialist EQT is in the process of raising a €250 million turnaround fund, the first of its kind in the Nordic region.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Michael Pilson of DuPont Capital Management talks to Robert Venes about the role of turnaround, restructuring and distressed funds in his firm’s private equity investment portfolio.
5 min read · 30 December 2012
According to figures presented at the AVCA’s annual conference in Mombasa earlier this week, VCs active in Africa invested $1.3bn last year, up 60% on 2003.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Acting as equal partners, private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Lion Capital are committed to buying the European soft drinks business of Cadbury Schweppes.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The private equity arm of Edinburgh-based insurer Standard Life has closed its third fund of funds vehicle on €850m and secured an additional €375m in three separate accounts.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
