Private Equity
Two private equity firms, one in Hong Kong, and the other in London, are poised to take a controlling stake in a mobile phone operator in New Zealand that has been attempting to break the country’s duopoly.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
A study by CMBOR has revealed contrasting fortunes for the UK and Continental European buyout markets.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Esprit Capital Partners has invested a further £0.7m in the £2.8m Series B funding of the UK fabless semiconductor company.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Actis, a UK Private equity firm, is investing $42 million to fund the expansion of an Indian over-the-counter healthcare and personal care business.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Hogg Robinson, a UK business travel company majority owned by European buyout firm Permira, has set a price range for its planned October flotation, valuing the business at around £380m.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Peakadilly, a Belgian biotechnology company developing biomolecular diagnostics technologies, has raised €14.5m from venture capital firms including GIMV and Life Science Partners.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Cinven, a European buyout group, has made an unsolicited offer to the owner of pizza chains Pizza Express and ASK to take it private in a £559m deal, less than a year after floating.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Private equity firms Permira and General Atlantic Partners are still in the running for Misys, but the software and systems group says that it has yet to receive an offer it can recommend to shareholders.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Apax Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, two buyout firms, have quashed the possibility of an offer for Signet Group, a jewellery retailer with stores in the UK and US.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
US turnaround specialist has bought two automotive suppliers – one German, the other Japanese – for $305 million as US billionaire Wilbur Ross continues to extend his global exposure in the sector.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
