European private equity firms have raised €33bn in the first six months of 2006, up from €29.8bn in the first half of 2005, driven by increases in buyout fundraising.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The revision of guidelines for taxation of ratcheted and geared returns received by employees of private-equity backed companies has been welcomed by the British Venture Capital Association.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Kendall Court Capital Partners has closed its maiden mezzanine fund on $90m, with commitments from CDC, Citigroup Venture Capital International and TIF Ventures.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Charterhouse is set to return £500 million to shareholders with a refinancing carried out by Merrill Lynch less than two years after acquiring the over-50s insurance and leisure group.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
JM Financial, a fund management company based in India, has raised $90m at a first close of its first private equity fund. The fund will make growth capital investments in Indian businesses.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Law firm Latham & Watkins has strengthened its Frankfurt office with the appointment of Christina Ungeheuer, a partner in the leverage finance group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Industri Kapital, a pan-European mid-market firm, has sold its 4.5 percent stake in Sweden’s Oriflame Cosmetics, an investment from its €750m 1997 fund.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
FL Group, an Iceland investment group, has purchased a 14% stake in UK department store chain House of Fraser, bought by a consortium led by Iceland’s Baugur Group for £351m.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
DBG Europe and 3TS, two private equity firms focused on investments in central and eastern Europe, have acquired a 75% stake in Polish children’s clothing retailer, Komex.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
LBO France, a French private equity firm, has acquired the airport ground and cargo handling business of Vinci, a construction group, for €315m.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
