A consortium of UK fund managers have formed a new industry body with the aim of educating retail and small institutional investors on the workings and merits of private equity investment trusts (PEITs).
2 min read · 03 January 2013
1 min read · 03 January 2013
TPG Newbridge, the Asia-focused investment subsidiary of Texas Pacific Group, is to begin investing again in Japan after an absence of three years
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Premier Foods, a UK food group, has terminated discussions with United Biscuits in the £1.7 billion auction for the biscuits and snacks maker, leaving Blackstone as the sole remaining interested party.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
AXA Private Equity has followed up its acquisition of an 85% stake in French airport support equipment supplier by launching a public buyout offer and squeeze-out of the Euronext-listed group.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The London-based buyout firm is understood to have recouped its equity investment in over-50s leisure and finance company Saga.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Centaurus Capital of the UK and Paulson of the US have forced Dutch conglomerate Stork to hold an EGM later this week, where they will request that the company focus solely on its aerospace business.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
HgCapital has partnered with management to make a 180 pence per share offer for SHL Group, a psychometric assessement company for business clients including Tesco, Citibank and Trinity Mirror.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Global private equity fundraising has reached $300bn in the first nine months of 2006, already ahead of the $283bn raised in all of 2005.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The UK restaurant sector has seen more than £1 billion in private equity transactions in the last month. Private equity’s appetite for eating out assets is, as yet, undiminished. By Robert Venes.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
