CVC Asia Pacific has reportedly paid $100m in the management buyout of Chinese flooring products company Plantation Timber Products.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
3i, a London-listed private equity firm, is planning a buyout of residential housing company Countrywide, which could be valued at up to £880 million.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Pantheon Ventures, manager of quoted investment trust Pantheon International Participations, has generated £157m of distributions in the full year to June 30 2006, up 74 percent.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The founder of Apax Partners is courting investors for a new alternative asset management business, Portland Capital, reportedly in partnership with Lord Rothschild.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Despite being launched over 30 years ago, Sophia Antipolis in France doesn’t yet have the high profile of other clusters like Silicon Valley in the US and Cambridge in the UK - but that doesn’t mean it deserves to be written off. By Robert Venes.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
Permira’s UK business portfolio company Hogg Robinson returned to the stock market today with a pricing of 90 pence, well below its original planned pricing of 140 pence to 200 pence.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
DeepStream Technologies, a Welsh embedded sensor company, has raised £8.1m in second-round financing from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and 3i.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Four private equity firms are reportedly lining up second-round bids for Whitworths, a UK dried fruit snack company acquired by Gresham Private Equity in 2001.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
A consortium including 3i and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has increased its offer for UK water utility AWG from £15.55 to £15.78 as banks including Merrill Lynch and Macquarie Bank show interest in the event of failure to acquire rival business Thames Water.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Abraaj Capital is in negotiations with United Arab Emirates investment firm Al Qudra Holdings regarding the sale of a major stake in the Dubai-based private equity firm.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
