Private Equity
BaltcCap's acquisition of Estonian diagnostic company Quattromed highlights the region’s growing pipeline for private equity deals.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton will purchase Royal van Lent from Dutch investment firm Egeria, which bought the company two years ago. The price is undisclosed, but has been estimated to be at 11 times the company’s net profit.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Munich-based private equity firm has sold its majority stake in ZPF therm Maschinenbau after two-and-a-half years to DZ Equity Partners, the Frankfurt-based private equity arm of DZ Bank.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
A Scotland-based company has raised a private equity fund and enlisted heavyweight LPs to finance the purchase of four industrial parts manufacturing business units from US conglomerate Textron.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Roughly two years after acquiring Jil Sander from Prada, the European retail-focused private equity shop has exited to Italy’s GIBO, a subsidiary of Tokyo-listed Onward Holdings. While owned by Change Capital, Jil Sander's EBITDA grew from negative €13m to €6m.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The £132.5m sale comes as the UK’s Competition Commission is threatening to force the Spanish infrastructure investor to sell three airports owned by the British Airport Authority, which it acquired in 2006.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK technology secondaries specialist will become the new manager of the €36m Lynx Capital Ventures fund, formerly operated by London-based Bear Stearns Asset Management.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Riverstone, Carlyle and Grazia and GLG are among the private equity investors that have helped bring Nanosolar’s total capital raised to just less than $500m. Separately, Nanosolar competitor AVA Solar has raised $104m.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The US private equity firm has completed its first exit from its debut fund wit the sale of FirstLight for a reported value of $1.9bn. Energy Capital paid $1.34bn for FirstLight’s predecessor company in November 2006.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
FRS Global, acquired by the private equity firms two years ago, has agreed to purchase Switzerland-based Iris integrated risk management to provide integrated risk and regulatory reporting products. Carlyle made its investment from its €222m European technology fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
