Merchant Equity Partners, a retail-focused private equity firm set up by a former managing director at Deutsche Bank, has made its first deal, investing up to £73 million in the loss-making retail unit of MFI Furniture Group.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Nordic investor has been busy in the last week with the acquisition of two Swedish healthcare companies.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
An all cash offer of A$3.50 per share values the Australian healthcare business at A$2.7 billion, almost 12 times the company’s 2006 EBITDA.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Cinven has said it is considering making an offer for the quoted owner of two UK pizza chains, whose main shareholders have agreed to sell.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Doughty Hanson is reportedly to follow in the public market footsteps of KKR and Apollo Management and raise a buyout fund on Amsterdam Euronext.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Partners Group, a Swiss listed fund manager, has appointed Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns to launch the listing of a €400m AIM-listed fund investing in Europe, North America and Asia.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Blackstone, Cinven and CVC are reportedly looking at Swedish healthcare business Capio, despite Apax Partners and Nordic Capital having a €1.67bn unsolicited bid rejected earlier this month.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Carbon Trust, a UK government-funded organisation committed to cutting carbon emissions in the UK, has finished assembling its board in the run-up to a £75 million listing on AIM. Robert Venes reports.
4 min read · 04 January 2013
Private equity firms Cinven, The Carlyle Group and Apax Partners have made a fourth disposal from their 2002 buyout of the business publishing division of Vivendi Universal Publishing, selling MediaMedia USA in a secondary buyout to Vestar Capital Partners.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Buyout firms Permira, The Carlyle Group and Apax Partners are reportedly mulling separate bids for TIM, the mobile unit of Telecom Italia, in what would be Europe’s biggest ever buyout.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
