Private Equity
First came the financial crisis, then the Arab Spring. The MENA region has had to deal with crises on several fronts over the last few years. So how well is the region’s private equity industry picking itself up after the turmoil?
7 min read · 19 September 2013
KKR will acquire about 27% or 4.75m shares of the oil field digitalisation company.
1 min read · 19 September 2013
CVC’s €600m purchase of Skrill comes just days after it invested €800m in Domestic and General and entered exclusive talks to acquire Campbell Soup's European business.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
The UK development finance institution has partnered Abraaj to back healthcare chain Rainbow Hospitals.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The £32.2m investment in the facilities management division of AIM-listed Johnson Service Group is the second deal of Lyceum’s third fund, which closed on £330m at the end of last year.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
After acquiring the company for about $2bn in 2007, Apax Partners will sell Hub International to its peer Hellman & Friedman.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
Mounting macroeconomic concerns are making deals harder to execute in Turkey – but easing competition may help bring down valuations, delegates heard at PEI’s Turkey Forum in Istanbul.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
The Octopus-backed UK business, which provides electronic transaction processing for fund managers, has some high-powered new backers as it eyes overseas expansion.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
Partners Group's purchase of an apparel labelling business has given the Southeast Asia-focused firm an impressive exit multiple.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
The deal for eyeglass retailer Alain Afflelou was struck just one day after Bridgepoint confirmed it had entered exclusive talks with Lion Capital.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
