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UK pension beefs up private equity staffThe second-largest pension fund in the UK is increasing its headcount as it seeks to grow its private equity allocation.
- Babcock to divest all non-infrastructure businesses
The Australian investment firm is planning to shed its real estate and operating leasing units after announcing it would retain them this summer. The struggling publicly listed firm will slash its workforce by more than 800 in an effort to repay A$3.1bn in debt.
- Goldman completes ABN AMRO secondaries deal
AAC Capital Partners, the former ABN AMRO buyout team, has secured €950m for further acquisitions from investors including Goldman Sachs, the CPPIB, AlpInvest and Adams Street.
- Lehman Euronext fund resumes trading
The publicly listed fund of funds is now trading at almost a 50 percent discount to NAV. In a statement, the fund says it is “hopeful” that a deal for Lehman’s asset management and alternatives units “will be made within a very short period of time”.
- Fortis to raise €400m for clean energy
Several months after a merger with ABN AMRO Asset Management, the Paris-based asset manager has set out to raise an ‘infrastructure-style fund’ making project-level investments in wind, hydro, solar and biomass.
- Ferrovial sells Belfast airport to ABN infrastructure fund
The £132.5m sale comes as the UK’s Competition Commission is threatening to force the Spanish infrastructure investor to sell three airports owned by the British Airport Authority, which it acquired in 2006.
- AAC consolidates sauna market
The former ABN AMRO buyout firm has combined two Nordic sauna manufacturers to create what it says is the largest sauna company in the world. The new owners are looking East, to burgeoning demand in the Russian market, to drive the company forward.
- Report: CHAMP looking to exit two investments
CHAMP Private Equity will reportedly sell United Malt and International Energy Services, as it plans to hit the fundraising track for its third buyout fund.
- Goldman, RBS commit €1bn to AAC Capital
The two banks have committed €500m each to a new AAC Capital Partners fund seeded with 11 warehoused investments.
- Koenig moves into RBS' European sponsor role
Jochen Koenig is filling the slot vacated by John Hourican, who is now part of the team managing RBS' latest acquisition, the Dutch bank ABN Amro.