Private Equity
The firm will acquire Apex Tool Group, its largest disclosed investment of 2012.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The UK’s Acteon Group, a provider of subsea services in the upstream oil and gas sector, will have a new set of private equity sponsors.
1 min read · 17 January 2013
American Industrial Partners, EQT and Headland Capital won the overall Americas, EMEA and Asia categories in PEI's inaugural Operational Excellence Awards.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The secondary market had supported deal volume of about $13bn in the first half of the year, but slowed over the summer and hasn’t picked up much velocity in the second half.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
Providence Equity Partners has revealed it will exit an online video platform in a sale to Baidu, just after the US-based private equity firm opened a Beijing office.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Most GPs believe Indonesia will present the best growth opportunities for private equity firms, while interest in China and India fades.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The UK-based private equity firm has divested all its remaining shares in Galaxy Entertainment, generating a 2.8x return over three exits.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Chinese fund is the second sovereign wealth fund to recently take a stake in London's Heathrow Airport.
1 min read · 17 January 2013
Emerging markets, differentiated products and diversified strategies will be firmly on LPs’ radars next year, say Eaton Partners’ Jeff Eaton and Jeff Davis.
4 min read · 17 January 2013
The Carlyle Group, FountainVest Partners and CITIC Capital will take the US-listed Chinese company private in China’s largest ever leveraged buyout.
2 min read · 17 January 2013