Private Equity
Indian infrastructure firm Zeus Infra-management and Global Infrastructure Partners have bought East India Petroleum as private equity firms continue to invest strongly in the oil and gas sector.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK mid-market firm Phoenix Equity Partners has bought Abel & Cole, the organic box company in its sixth investment from the fund it raised last year.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firm with deep defence expertise is in talks to purchase Booz Allen Hamilton’s government consulting business.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Silver Lake’s middle-market technology fund, currently reported to be raising an inaugural $1 billion, has done its first deal with the acquisition of mobile phone marketing company Mobile Messenger.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The European venture firms have backed website Moveme.com. Balderton’s investment was driven in part by the memory of the stress of moving house.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
BUPA, a UK healthcare group, has made a A$1.225bn acqusition of CVC's DCA Agedcare Group, just months after selling its portfolio of hospitals to Cinven, a UK buyout group.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The US investment firm that took over troubled Austrian bank Bawag-PSK in May is now selling a property package that belonged to its new acquisition.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Peter Dubens, a UK-based entrepreneur, has taken a first step towards his €550 million target for his debut fund, using proceeds from an AIM flotation and capital from external investors and his team.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Through the purchase of website FastBooking, two private equity firms are looking to take advantage of the growing trend of internet booking.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
US buyout firm JC Flowers has been unable to sell the Dutch bank, despite agreeing a deal in August. The cancelled deal may dampen Flowers’ interest in UK bank Northern Rock and UK insurer Friends Provident.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
