The US mid-market firm has expanded its fast-food portfolio, which includes Auntie Anne's and Seattle's Best Coffee, with the addition of popular sandwich chain Arby's.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Nigel McConnell (pictured), who was instrumental in orchestrating Cognetas’ spin-out from Electra Investment Trust in 2005, has left the firm over strategic differences.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK-based lower mid-market firm will invest up to €50m in Masotina, marking its second acquisition since August 2010.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Vista Equity Partners wants to nearly double its previous fundraising effort, targeting $2.5bn for a niche software focus.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
NBCU will pay $1bn to buy Blackstone's 50% stake in the theme park, which the firm reportedly acquired for $275m in 2000.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK buyout firm will sell a subsidiary of Migros Ticaret for $380m after purchasing the Turkish supermarket chain for $3.2bn in 2008.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
US buyout firms Pamlico Capital, formerly part of Wells Fargo, and Nautic Partners have sold engineering group MACTEC for $280m, nine years after Nautic first invested in the business.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
2 min read · 28 December 2012