Private Equity
As credit processes from UK banks take longer to complete, firms like Dunedin and Gresham are taking debt finance into their own hands.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
UBS has reportedly written off more than A$500m of Stella Group’s debt in return for a 40% stake in the travel and hospitality company.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Should a deal with CVC materialise, it would mark the second set of assets one of the world’s biggest brewing companies has recently sold to private equity firms.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The FIG-focused firm is deploying a recently closed €575m fund, having in May become the first private equity firm to buy a UK bank.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
President and chief executive of Allianz Real Estate Olivier Piani says it is the ‘best time’ to be growing a global organisation. The insurance company expects to grow its allocation to RE to 6% 'and maybe more', with up to a third focused on the US and Asia respectively.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK mid-market firm has made 12x selling Viking Moorings in a secondary buyout, but retains a stake in the business alongside its new private equity backer HSBC.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Nascent private equity house Miura Private Equity has invested in Proytecsa, a Spanish business that supplies security products like bomb disposal robots and security doors for banks.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The famed hotel on the French Riviera will be offered for sale next week through Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels. The 80-year-old property is used by film stars during the Cannes Film Festival.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Luke Johnson's Risk Capital, which bought the book seller for £20m in 2007, has sold Borders UK to Hilco affiliate Valco Capital Partners.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Lower mid-market firm Key Capital Partners has invested £6m in the deal alongside debt from Yorkshire Bank and vendor loan notes. The investment in UK-based soup and food supplier TSC was made from the Key Capital’s £100m debut fund, which closed in 2007.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
