Private Equity
The Boston firm has sold Colorado-based cleaning equipment manufacturer Castle Rock Industries for $88 million.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The private equity industry is once more turning to UK-based consumer businesses to put its money to work with bids rumoured for Morrisons, a besieged national grocer, and Matalan, a troubled discount retailer.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
French mid-market firm Pragma Capital has acquired Barclays Private Equity’s 80 percent stake in La Croissanterie, France’s second-largest sandwich chain.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The Scottish bank’s integrated finance arm has taken a minority stake in Vue Entertainment, the cinema group, providing both debt and equity in its biggest deal yet
2 min read · 03 January 2013
US-based real estate fund manager Starwood Capital has sold the French champagne interests that it acquired in its €1.2bn purchase of Groupe Taittinger last July.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Southern Cross Healthcare Group, a Blackstone portfolio company, has relaunched its plans to float on the London Stock Exchange following postponement late last month.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
StarParks, a European theme park operator owned by London-based growth investor Palamon Capital Partners, has sold six of its leisure parks but will retain its name, management team and a remaining facility in Germany
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Netherlands-headquartered private equity firm Gilde and ABN AMRO Capital have sold their interests in Hebu, a Dutch hydraulic systems company, to Halder, a subsidiary of listed Belgian investor GIMV.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Market conditions appear to have impacted upon another private-equity backed flotation, with KKR and Siemens slashing the amount they plan to raise for German crane maker Demag by €192m.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The UK-based private equity firm is trying to crash the party for the De Vere hotel and leisure chain after two years of courting the business.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
