Private Equity
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
New York- and San Francisco-based Behrman Capital has sold WIL Research Laboratories for $500 million, earning a 3.6x return.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
UK-listed Candover Investments and Electra Private Equity, and San Francisco-based Lombard Investments have sold their stakes in Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corporation to rival Canadian Pacific after 20 years, although the firms may receive a further return in 18 years time.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The European buyout firm is exiting its Dutch packaging business in a secondary sale to One Equity Partners.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Marketing company Loewy, the recipient of $24 million of growth capital from buyout firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson, has bolted on two acquisitions this week.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
GI Partners purchased a controlling stake in St. Helena, California-based Duckhorn Wine Company, whose labels include Duckhorn, Paraduxx and Goldeneye. Wine industry sources estimate the price paid in the $250 million range.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Rutland has ended its three year investment in pawnbroking, making a 2.7 times return from the sale of Svensk Pantbelaning to Preato Capital a year after larger European business Harvey & Thompson was floated on AIM.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The pair have forged an unusual private equity, property firm partnership to buy a listed Channel Islands group that controls five separate consumer and leisure businesses.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Marketing company Loewy, the recipient of $24 million of growth capital from buyout firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson, has bolted on two acquisitions this week.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Stamford, Connecticut-based Great Circle has made its second investment in Russia with the injection of $21.1 million of growth capital into logistics company STS Logistics.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
