While overall secondary activity is down, growing pressure to restructure poorly-performing portfolios dating from the boom years has resulted in direct secondaries doubling their share of the market since last year, according to fresh research.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The Dubai-based firm has agreed to sell its stake in a Turkish health insurance business after investing in the company in 2007.
1 min read · 19 September 2013
The performance of a vintage year can be linked to a specific J-curve, fresh research has found.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
The Eastern European-focused firm, which is targeting €1bn with a €1.25bn hard-cap, is likely to reach a first close in the next few months.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The Zug-based firm exceeded its €250m target and saw a re-up rate that was ‘significantly above 100%’, according to Invision’s managing partner Frank Becker.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
Only four of the 54 add-ons that Bridgepoint has supported in its Fund IV needed additional equity from the fund, leaving Bridgepoint with more capital to do more deals.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
While private equity firms backed more companies in Central and Eastern Europe than last year, deal volume was down by nearly 20%, according to an EVCA study.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The two UK-based firms, which operate at different ends of the buyout spectrum, have shown investor appetite for Europe remains strong.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
The London-listed firm, which saw a string of exits in recent months, is planning to sell more portfolio companies, 3i’s finance director Julia Wilson said during a conference call.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
The Swedish firm, which is bound by its limited partnership agreement to wrap up fundraising within a year of an ‘initial close’, needed more time to get to the €3bn target of its latest investment vehicle.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
