Private Equity
The firm has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Sophos from the company’s founders and TA Associates, which first invested in Sophos in 2002.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Barclays Ventures, which focuses on small UK buyouts, is halting new investments. The group’s managing director, Kip Kapur, is resigning.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Warburg Pincus has partnered Silver Lake to buy Interactive Data in the same week it has agreed to buy Advent International’s UK retailer Poundland.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Private Equity Council’s president, Doug Lowenstein, said at a conference Wednesday a tax hike on carried interest is likely to pass – and it’s just one of several tax measures that will hit GPs in the wallet.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The New York-headquartered private equity firm will acquire 25% of Eastern European restaurant operator AmRest.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK-focused private equity firm has completed six acquisitions for London and South community-care provider Enara Group.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
KKR will take a 49.9% stake in Spain-based Grupo Inaer, leaving Investindustrial and management with the remaining 50.1%.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Private equity firms selling assets to one another helped first quarter deal values hit their highest level since Lehman Brothers collapsed.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
A bid by UK charitable foundation The Wellcome Trust and The Blackstone Group to buy 318 branches owned and operated by UK bank The Royal Bank of Scotland, has been withdrawn.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
TPG's growth equity arm has joined Bain Capital as an investor in the Indian children's wear company.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
