Private Equity
The private equity firms acquired Europe’s largest food and beverage vending machine maker from Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity and Argan Capital using about €600m of debt arranged by eight lenders.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The online marketplace for holiday home rentals has attracted a record financing round from investors amid a difficult funding environment. Austin Ventures and Redpoint Ventures seeded HomeAway in 2005.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The $35.8m fund has invested along with one of its portfolio companies in the management buyout of Colombian vehicle leasing company Rentandes.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The 'homeland security' private equity firm has led a consortium spanning three continents to launch Vital Renewable Energy.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Permira, Apax, CVC and PAI are reportedly lining up against two trade buyers as they consider bids to carve out Clece, a support services firm, from construction conglomerate ACS in the latest example of a Spanish building group selling off non-core assets.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Marking the Latin American infrastructure-focused private equity firm’s largest equity commitment in the region, Conduit will buy a 50% equity stake in Brazilian hydroelectric developer GLEP in a deal said to be in excess of $50 million.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The venture arm of the Silicon Valley-based semiconductor company has made its debut Chinese cleantech investments from its $500m China fund, which closed in April.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity firm co-founded by ousted AIG chief executive Robert Willumstad has acquired a 19% stake in BCSC, Brysam’s third transaction since its founding in January 2007.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Over two years in the making, the 700-mile natural gas pipeline represents the largest project the New York-based infrastructure investor has ever been involved in and marks a significant economic development project for the Latin American country of 30 million.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The California-based gatekeeper has signed onto a global framework that allows institutional investors to evaluate their portfolios to make sure risks related to environment, social and governance issues are being addressed.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
