Private Equity
Bowmark Capital has made four times its money from a consolidation play in the UK educational travel market. DLJ plans to take advantage of trends driving the market to outsourced travel providers.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
GMR Infrastructure will purchase AIG’s 50 percent stake in power generation company InterGen, while Ontario Teachers’ will continue to hold the remainder of the company it purchased with AIG in 2005. The firms paid a combined $1.75bn to acquire InterGen two years ago.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
In the UK mid-market firm's second deal of the week, Phoenix is banking on an aggressive roll out of a restaurant chain to take the group from three to 30 sites.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation may receive $1.7bn in exchange for relinquishing majority control of publicly listed subsidiary NDS Group to the global private equity firm.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The European growth investor is adding to its golf-related interests by acquiring a majority stake in GolfRange. The firm is looking to make the game more accessible and affordable by opening more courses in urban areas.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The banking consortium led by RBS has forced a debt for equity swap on Doughty’s investment in the mobile phone business 20:20.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Italian private equity firm Magenti will sell the concrete equipment firm to a consortium comprised of Shenzhen-listed construction equipment company Zoomlion, Goldman Sachs, Hony Capital and Mandarin Capital Partners.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The JPMorgan private equity arm has submitted an undisclosed offer for Johnson & Johnson’s wound care division just a day after announcing a $110m investment in a CI Capital Partners holding company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Alcazar Capital has invested in Bumi Geo Engineering and plans to launch its maiden third-party fund to invest in infrastructure services and logistics in India
2 min read · 04 January 2013
After months of defying expectations of widespread slowdown in buyout activity, the UK's mid-market firms have seen dealflow drop to a trickle in the first half of the year, according to the latest numbers.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
