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Apax offers $571m for personal finance websitesThe London-based private equity firm would pay $28.50 per share for the company Bankrate.com. The all-equity deal is a 15.8% premium over the stock’s close price on Tuesday.
- NZL Superannuation hires Hamilton Lane
The NZ$13.1bn Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation have appointed Hamilton Lane to advise on the fund's private equity investments.
- Apax chief: All-equity deals, co-investments to become king
Martin Halusa has outlined his firm’s plans for a world with less leverage in the firm’s second annual report.
- Which empires are crumbling?
A look back at the largest private equity firms of 1998 provides a reminder that today's titans are not guaranteed to hold their positions forever. By David Snow
- On the other side of the peak
The total value of private equity activity in Italy soared in the first half of 2008, but by the end of the year deal-doing was largely off the agenda. Reporting from Milan, Andy Thomson asks what happens next
- Ex-Apax financial services chief to replace Bridgepoint’s Davison
Stephen Green will lead the mid-market firm’s European financial services activities as John Davison ends his six-year tenure to ‘pursue other interests’.
- EVCA shapes up for regulatory tussle
Spurred by the increasing need to engage with policy makers, the European industry body - currently chaired by 3i's Jonathan Russell - has proposed changes to its structure that would ensure the whole industry speaks 'with one clear voice'.
- GPs soothed by retail therapy
New Look, the fashion chain owned by Permira and Apax, is the latest European retailer to give its private equity sponsors something to smile about.
- PEI names secondaries pioneer private equity leader
In a ‘sign of the times’ PEI’s second annual Private Equity Leader award has gone to Jeremy Coller, whose firm manages one of the largest pools of capital in the secondaries market.
- Ronald Cohen: Europe needs a NASDAQ
Last year’s PEI Private Equity Leader Award winner has said that the European venture capital market will not achieve the same status as that of the US or Israel without the creation of a functioning public market for high growth companies.