Private Equity
The fund, which has a target of $200m, is eyeing a first close of $75m later this year.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Permira, for the first time, will include two kibbutzim, traditional agricultural communities in Israel, as co-investors on an investment in a farming technology company.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Up to £2.3trn of assets could be ‘ring-fenced’ from bank’s riskier wholesale investment functions, including loans to private equity firms.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The Swiss private markets manager has invested in Sorgenia France, a French wind energy joint venture established by KKR and Italian energy company Sorgenia in June.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Spain’s private equity community is anticipating a more business-friendly government as the conservative People's Party is expected to dethrone the Socialists from power in November.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
European alternatives manager AXA Private Equity has continued its deal spree this year, following a swathe of secondaries deals and buyouts with a growth capital investment in Facebook marketing agency KRDS.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The European arm of HIG Capital’s recent acquisition of The Losberger Group was its eleventh deal this year – and it remains bullish about the current market.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Guy Hands' firm has begun another round of legal proceedings over former portfolio company EMI, petitioning the UK courts to grant it access to documents held by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
More than 60% of capital deployed globally by private equity firms was invested in North American companies last year, a report by The Private Equity Growth Capital Council has found.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Partners Group, the Switzerland-based private markets investment manager, has continued its international expansion with the launch of a new office in Paris. The firm now has 15 offices in total around the world.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
