Abris, a Central and Eastern European focused firm, has attracted 21 investors from the US, Australia and the Middle East for its second fund – despite not yet registering any exits from its debut vehicle.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
3i continues to shed staff and sell assets, and has given up on the idea of raising another buyout fund any time soon. These are anxious times for one of the UK’s oldest and best-known private equity groups
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Findus’s implication in the UK horse meat scandal has illustrated how damaging supply chain issues can be to a portfolio company’s performance and reputation. But to what extent can GPs mitigate these risks?
4 min read · 21 September 2013
The Bahrain-based firm, which bought Armacell in 2007 from Gilde Buy Out Partners and CVC Capital Partners, has sold the business to Charterhouse Capital Partners for more than €500m.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
After spending 11 years at Hamilton Lane, Peter Larsen has joined Atlantic-Pacific Capital where he will be leading a team that evaluates financial sponsor prospects.
1 min read · 20 September 2013
Deutsche Beteiligungs has invested €10.6m -- €4.4m from its balance sheet and the remainder from its Expansion Capital Fund to acquire a minority stake in telecom business Inexio.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The Swiss firm, which believes the industry could do more on ESG, is implementing a third-party tool to measure environmental, social and governance issues in its portfolio companies.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The Amsterdam-headquartered firm received interest from a number of international private equity firms but sold Sator Holdings to trade buyer LKQ Corporation for $268m.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The sale of Dutch cable operator Ziggo has generated €1.7bn in total proceeds for each of the firms representing a 2.8x return for Cinven and more than 4x return for Warburg.
1 min read · 20 September 2013
The London-listed firm, which said it would commit €100m to Permira V, saw a 13% increase in net asset value due to a significant uplift of the underlying portfolio of Permira IV.
3 min read · 20 September 2013
