The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has opened its first international office in Asia as more investors continue to seek a base in the fast-growing region.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
They are also negotiating with financial sponsors to restructure deals to make them acceptable to buyers in the liquidity-starved loan markets.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The US Committee on Foreign Investment has indicated it will block the acquisition of IT networking company 3Com because of Bain’s minority Chinese trade partner Huawei.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The global investment firm is hoping the UK laser eye surgery will grow rapidly over the next five years, as buyout firms look to healthcare as a shelter from the storms brewing in the world economy.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions has highlighted possible conflicts of interest and leverage as its focus for further investigation of the industry.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK-centric large buyout focus of the Walker Report means only a limited number of portfolio companies have to comply. Moves are afoot to take the transparency reforms further.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Candover has salvaged its troubled bid for Dutch conglomerate Stork by teaming up with the Icelandic consortium that jeopardised its initial bid.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Palamon Capital Partners has carried out its ninth investment for its latest fund as it looks to benefit from the growth of online clothes shopping.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK Chancellor Alistair Darling has conceded his planned capital gains tax increase is 'controversial' and said he plans to publish final proposals in three weeks’ time.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
US buyout firm TPG Capital has abandoned its second bid for a national carrier this year, as the consortium it formed alongside UK airline British Airways has walked away from its bid for Spanish rival Iberia.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
