Private Equity
UK firm Electra Private Equity is putting its safety equipment manufacturer up for sale for £500m and is thought to have attracted interest from private equity group Advent International and safety equipment companies Aearo and Norcross Safety.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Private equity firm General Atlantic has added a fifteenth services company to its portfolio after buying a $66m minority stake in an outsourcing provider.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
German buyout firm Deutsche Beteiligungs has bought a 75% stake in Austria-based MCE, an industrial services company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Macquarie Bank has teamed up with rival BC Partners to takeover Techem in Germany’s first ‘hostile’ public-to-private.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Barclays Private Equity has sold a women’s wear retailer for £51.5m to a consortium led by Kaupthing Principal Investments, which is bringing in a “high profile chief executive officer” to head the business in the coming months.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
The Mill, a UK advertising visual effects company, has been bought by The Carlyle Group and the management team for an undisclosed sum, thought to be more than £50m.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Washington, DC-based firm joins a wave of several other firms investing in the restaurant industry with the purchase of Peter Piper, a pizza chain popular with Hispanics consumers.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
TowerBrook Capital Partners has bought iconic UK shoemaker Jimmy Choo in a £185 million deal, generating a substantial return for previous owners Lion Capital in just over two years.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
3i suffers another setback as £462m Enterprise buyout deal is rejected.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Nordic private equity firm Litorina Kapital has bought a Swedish waste management company, in its second deal this week.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
