Private Equity
Tesco’s offer bid for Dobbies garden centre looks likely to succeed, after Tom Hunter’s West Coast Capital pulled out of the bidding.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Paladin Capital and a fund led by Credit Suisse, with the backing of the Abu Dhabi government, have invested $77 million in a producer of thin film solar products.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Waterland Private Equity Investments and Prime Technology Ventures have sold GlobalCollect, an e-payment service provider, to General Atlantic for an undisclosed amount.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
After two years of ownership, Carlyle’s European venture arm is selling French scientific equipment maker CAMECA to US trade player AMETEK for more than €80 million. The fund, which was launched with great fanfare in 1999 to target internet investments, was forced to broaden its remit after the dotcom crash.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Piper Private Equity has sold its minority stake in UK Latin American-themed restaurant chain Las Iguanas to Bowmark Capital for £27 million, registering a 6 times return with a 40 percent IRR over five years.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The French listed buyout firm is in pole position to win the auction for Elis, a French textile business, after revealing that it has entered exclusive negotiations to buy the business from rival PAI Partners.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
US restructuring specialist WL Ross has reportedly offered $435 million for the loan servicing division of bankrupt lender American Home Mortgage.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The underwriting banks syndicating the Alliance Boots debt package have pulled the second lien tranche of the debt package, just a week after they were forced to postpone syndication of the senior debt for the deal.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK turnaround specialist Rutland Partners has bought Pulse Home Products, a supplier of domestic appliances, as it seeks to invest the £320 million fund it closed two weeks ago.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has made a co-investment of $10 million with GTI Group in GloriOil, a company formed by GTI in 2005 to commercialise a biotechnology that increases oil well efficiency.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
