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Boris Johnson praises private equityMayor of London Boris Johnson said that private equity was ‘absolutely vital’ to the UK economy, at the opening of a private equity-funded East London community centre this Friday. Johnson was speaking to an audience of volunteers from private equity firms, charity sector representatives and local residents.
- Report: PE firms line up for Indian BPO company
Apax Partners, The Blackstone Group and Providence Equity Partners are reportedly eyeing the buyout of Firstsource, in a deal that could be worth about $400m.
- Technology guru to advise Apax
Apax Partners has expanded its Paris office with the hires of three investment professionals including Bernard Bourigeaud, a technology veteran with a formidable track record in buy-and-build strategies, as a senior advisor.
- Private equity buyouts decrease, shrink in size in 2008
Difficult financing conditions continued to soften global buyout activity for private equity firms, with deal volumes plunging 72 percent in the first nine months of 2008. The oil and gas and mining sectors as well as Japan, India and the Middle East remained bright spots.
- Consortium ups stake in Bezeq Israel Telecom by 11%
Apax Partners, Saban Capital Group and Mori Arkin have upped their stake in the privatised telecom company. The investor group acquired a 30 percent stake in Bezeq in 2005.
- Montagu delays €1.9bn BSN sale
Worries that initial bids were not deliverable in current market conditions led the former captive of HSBC to withdraw its German medical supplies company from an auction process.
- Sixteen-year Apax veteran joins LLR Partners
Gregory Case has joined middle market-focused LLR, noting that as Apax moved more firmly into mega-market territory, the smaller tech deals he specialised in 'just weren't large enough anymore'.
- Euro sceptic
The European Parliament’s proposal to regulate private equity seems unlikely to change things much at all, writes Toby Mitchenall.
- Report: PE firms vie for $2.5bn Asian telecoms deal
TPG, MBK Partners, Providence and Macquarie are reportedly among the firms that have made it through the first round of bidding for the media and telecommunications assets of Hong Kong-listed PCCW. Apax, Bain and Carlyle may also be second-round bidders.
- Apax to sell 10 percent stake
A trio of sovereign wealth funds is in negotiations to take a stake in the UK-based private equity firm, in a move that could value the company at around £1.5bn.