Private Equity
Carlyle’s purchase of Atlanta, Georgia-based RMI adds to its business services portfolio, while reinforcing investment trends in infrastructure and transport/logistics firms.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Royal Bank of Scotland’s private equity arm has put Southern Water up for sale with a price tag of about £4 billion. The UK utility is likely to attract a number of potential suitors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
A rising share price has derailed Brait’s plans to delist South African retailer Shoprite from the Johannesburg exchange.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Emerging private equity market investor Actis has made over $1 billion from the sale of power assets held by Globeleq, a subsidiary of UK investment group CDC, through two transactions.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Black economic empowerment specialist Sphere has bought a 35.8 percent stake in software company Barone, Budge and Dominick. The software company had been looking for a business partner committed to the South African governmental programme designed to promote racial equality.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
XConnect Global Networks, a service provider to the telecommunications industry, has received $12 million of funding from a venture capital consortium led by Accel Partners and Venrock Associates.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Three Delta, a Qatar-based investment group, has bought a 15 percent stake in UK retailer Sainsbury’s, increasing the pressure on the board to realise greater value from its real estate assets.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US VC firm Oak Investment Partners has completed a $25 million funding round for social networking site Reunion.com, one of the biggest investments in the area to date.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Cipio Partners has acquired the majority of Siemens Venture Capital Communications in one of the largest secondary direct portfolio transactions completed in the last few years.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
STAR Capital Partners, a UK-based fund that specialises in capital-intensive infrastructure investments, has bought and merged two flight simulator businesses as it continues to tap into the airline industry’s trend towards outsourcing.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
