Private Equity
Start-up private equity firm Merchant Equity Parters is in pole position to snap up the loss-making retail division of MFI Furniture Group.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Vision Capital, a secondary direct firm, has acquired a portfolio including three nuclear consultancy businesses and a rail infrastructure specialist for £76.4m.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Tom Hunter and Bank of Scotland’s £1.1bn bid for care homes builder McCarthy & Stone has been successful, with Permira and Barclays Capital opting not to increase their offer.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Investec, a minority shareholder in Signet Group, a UK jewellery retailer currently being stalked by two private equity firms, has said in a letter that the firm could achieve private equity-style benefits by remaining a public company.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
Bids for the roofing division of Lafarge, a global cement group, are being considered by a dozen private equity firms as well as trade buyers, according to a French report.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
ITV, a UK broadcaster, has sold its 45% stake in TV3 for £70m as part of a €265m transaction for the whole of the Irish television channel by Doughty Hanson.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Close Brothers Private Equity, a UK mid-market buyout firm, has made its first direct investment in the pharmaceuticals sector with a $176m management buyout of Rosement Pharmaceuticals, a developer of off-patent oral liquid medicines.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Graham Partners, a Philadelphia private equity firm, announced its recap of truck equipment refurbisher TransAxle, its fifth platform investment from its $465m second fund.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Mobile phone company founder John Caudwell has sold out to private equity netting more for his stake in the business than analysts had predicted for the entire group.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The two firms have invested $430 million in a $500 million joint venture with US Shipping Partners.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
