Permira, Europe’s largest buyout firm, is planning to float portfolio company Hogg Robinson later this month with an expected market cap of £400m to £450m.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Hemscott, a UK financial information provider, is to be delisted from AIM and merged with US rival I-deal if a bid by US private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson to take the business private is successful.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
KBC Private Equity, a Belgian private equity firm, has made its second investment in a Belgian biotechnology firm this week by leading a €40m Series financing for Ablynx, which develops protein products for serious diseases including Alzheimer’s.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Lion Capital, the former European arm of HM Capital Partners, has paid between $280m and $320m for Kettle Foods, a maker of snacks and ‘healthy’ food brands in the US and UK.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Swedish private equity firm has closed its fourth venture capital fund focusing on ICT and healthcare investments in the Nordic region.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The level of debt being placed on private equity-backed companies through recapitalisations could undermine their credit ratings, says a new report.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Ion Equity, a UK private equity and corporate advisory firm, has invested £41.5m in the management buyout of Inside Communications, with debt provided by Anglo Irish Bank.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Christoph Kaserer from TUM Business School and Munich University of Technology discusses deficiencies in the corporate governance model in Germany and how foreign private equity investors can help make a change.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
Permira is reportedly selling its budget hotel chain Travelodge for approximately £650m, with Dubai International Capital likely to win the race after entering into exclusive talks with the European buyout firm.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Hermes Private Equity has followed buyout firms Permira, Cinven and BC Partners into the European gaming, or gambling, sector. Robert Venes reports.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
