Private Equity

North Africa

Pantheon and Nova pick up laboratory group for £75m(4)

Pantheon Ventures and secondary investor Nova have bought the scientific laboratory business of Barloworld as it looks to grow the business overseas.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Ethos, Goldman consortium casino bid may be delayed

An Ethos Private Equity and Goldman Sachs consortium has run into regulatory difficulties in its acquisition of casino group Gold Reef Resorts after securing funding in problematic credit markets in September.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

Pantheon and Nova pick up laboratory group for £75m(3)

Pantheon Ventures and secondary investor Nova have bought the scientific laboratory business of Barloworld as it looks to grow the business overseas.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

HarbourVest raises $4bn for fifth non-US FoF

HarbourVest Partners’ latest fund of funds has a Europe-focussed main fund and an Asia Pacific-focussed sidecar fund.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Pantheon and Nova pick up laboratory group for £75m(2)

Pantheon Ventures and secondary investor Nova have bought the scientific laboratory business of Barloworld as it looks to grow the business overseas.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Middle East investors defy the credit crunch

While the credit markets have placed many private equity deals on hold, the ability of investors from the Middle East to deploy capital appears undiminished.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Ethos exits outsourcing company after 8 years

Ethos Private Equity has sold Tsebo Outsourcing Group having carried out a problematic disposal of a non-core on-flight catering business following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and ridden out price inflation in South Africa.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

First Reserve pays $420m for South African mining company

First Reserve hopes to take advantage of soaring nuclear power industry demand for uranium with an acquisition in South Africa.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

ECP, Truffle pay $53m for Moroccan mines

Emerging Capital Partners, in partnership with Truffle Capital, has acquired a third African mining company with its $53 million purchase of Morocco’s Compagnie Miniere de Touissit.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

Actis sells global energy group for $528m

Actis has partially sold energy company Globeleq while retaining the company’s sub-Saharan assets and its global pipeline of projects. Actis has managed Globeleq for emerging markets firm CDC.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

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