Private Equity
The European private equity giant has won the auction for the Birds Eye and igloo frozen food brands.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Dunedin Capital Partners has backed a £30m secondary management buyout of Capula, an IT systems integrator acquired by Bridgepoint in September 2000.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Miami private equity firm has acquired majority interests in two scrapbooking companies, including Die Cuts with a View, the fastest-growing private company in Utah.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Charterhouse is set to return £500 million to shareholders with a refinancing carried out by Merrill Lynch less than two years after acquiring the over-50s insurance and leisure group.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
FL Group, an Iceland investment group, has purchased a 14% stake in UK department store chain House of Fraser, bought by a consortium led by Iceland’s Baugur Group for £351m.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
LBO France, a French private equity firm, has acquired the airport ground and cargo handling business of Vinci, a construction group, for €315m.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Permira, Europe’s largest buyout firm, is planning to float portfolio company Hogg Robinson later this month with an expected market cap of £400m to £450m.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Hemscott, a UK financial information provider, is to be delisted from AIM and merged with US rival I-deal if a bid by US private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson to take the business private is successful.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Private equity firm Bunker Hill Capital, the owner of the Papa Gino’s pizza restaurant brand, has announced a ‘significant investment’ in the operator of the California Family Fitness club chain.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
BPE Investimentos has realised a substantial return after a nearly decade-long hold of a Brazilian sucro-chemical company.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
