Private Equity
3i has teamed with Neuberger Berman and Siguler Guff to acquire Brazilian eyeglass retailer Óticas Carol in a R$108m deal.
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
The firm has collected a total of $2.6bn for its Tactical Opportunities separately managed accounts business from US public pensions, sovereign wealth funds and retail investors.
3 min read · 20 September 2013
The firm, which invests in hard assets like ships, locomotives and power plants, has already raised about $300m from existing investors.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
PHARMAQ focuses on developing and providing vaccines for fish farms in Norway, Chile and the UK. Permira’s €250m will help the company expand its international and product reach.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The two private equity veterans have acquired 50% of the Spanish lender’s €152bn asset management business.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The £2.5bn growth investor, established less than two years ago to support promising British SMEs, has now backed Scotland-based Petrotechnics.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
Capital abounds for private equity deals of all sizes in North America, but new M&A has yet to take off
5 min read · 20 September 2013
The deal will generate a return multiple of roughly 3x for Warburg, which acquired the company in 2007 for about $3.67bn.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The US special situations firm will make the investment from its Fund III, which blew past its hard-cap earlier this year to close on $785m.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
