Private Equity
US firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has pulled out of the private equity consortium circling UK retailer Sainsbury’s, amid growing concerns that its ongoing bid for Alliance Boots could lead to competition issues.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK-based Baird Capital Partners has doubled its money by selling cooling manufacturer SHE to RACO, an Italian automotive manufacturing group.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Robert Tchenguiz has raised the stakes again in his increasingly fierce battle with Blackstone for tapas chain La Tasca, upping his original bid and buying a 20 percent stake in the business.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US buyout group TA Associates has made its latest acquisition in the healthcare sector, buying disease management company Alere Medical. It is the firm’s third deal in three weeks.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
NBGI Private Equity has benefited from Duke Street’s attempts to consolidate the chilled foods sector, making a sizeable return on the £22 million sale of Brambles Foods to Food Partners.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Mid market buyout firm Sovereign Capital Partners has sold insurer CMGL for £32 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
European private equity firm Bridgepoint has made its second German investment of 2007 and has sold one of its portfolio companies.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK mid-market firm Iceni Capital has closed three deals in one day , buying marketing services company Pell & Bales, and two communications companies that it has merged into one group.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK-based mid-market firm Stirling Square Capital Partners and US-based Diamond Castle have acquired an international highway safety solutions business for an undisclosed amount.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK-based mid-market firm Dunedin Capital Partners has exited two of its portfolio companies in as many weeks, creating money multiples of 4.3 times and 3.6 times.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
