The Paris-based private equity firm has carried out a management buyout of electronic and photonic products specialist BFI Optilas, a spin-out from Nasdaq-listed Avnet.
2 min read · 02 January 2013
London-listed private equity firm 3i has increased the amount it intends to return to shareholders following ‘strong’ full-year results from £500m to £700m.
3 min read · 02 January 2013
The London, Manchester and Birmingham lower mid-market financial investor has appointed Mike O’Brien as an investment executive.
1 min read · 02 January 2013
The French private equity arm of the Dutch bank has acquired the former enterprise distribution and services unit of telecommunications group Alcatel from Beverley Hills-based Platinum Equity.
2 min read · 02 January 2013
Babcock International Group, currently being stalked by BAE Systems and VT Group, has acquired nuclear and airport services operator Alstec from Gresham for £45m.
2 min read · 02 January 2013
A new report from Ernst & Young suggests that confidence is slowly, but surely, returning to the European venture capital scene. Robert Venes reports.
4 min read · 31 December 2012
The UK’s second largest chain of cinemas intends to float on the LSE next month with a reported enterprise value of £450m.
2 min read · 31 December 2012
Humphrey Cobbold, Trinity Mirror’s director of strategic development, is to join the European buyout firm in September to help it pursue more off-market transactions.
2 min read · 31 December 2012
European private equity investor CVC Capital Partners has launched Cordatus, a debt management business with the recent appointments of two former Deutsche Bank execs.
2 min read · 31 December 2012
German venture capital firm Wellington Partners and German/US VC Earlybird portfolio company NoemaLife has seen a 37% increase in share price since floating on the Milan Stock Exchange at the end of last week.
2 min read · 31 December 2012
