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HGGC grows investment team amid robust pipelineThe California-based firm has expanded its investment and business development capacities as Fund III, which closed in December, prepares to deploy capital this spring.
- Carlyle, CITIC buy McDonald’s China for $2bn
The fast-food giant intend to adds over 1,500 restaurants in mainland China and Hong Kong over the next five years following the investment.
- Advent picks up stake in Indian wealth manager
The deal to acquire a part stake in the ASK Group is Advent International’s first Indian investment from its latest buyout fund.
- PRIM's Mass appeal
PEI sat down at the beginning of the year with the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board’s CIO Michael Trotsky and its director of private equity Michael Bailey to discuss one of the best performing PE programmes in the US.
- Bain acquires $950m nursing provider
The firm has acquired Epic Health Services from Webster Capital, a sale which saw Webster reap a 10x multiple on its original $42m acquisition.
- Privately Speaking: Orlando Bravo
Thoma Bravo just closed Fund XII on $7.6bn, twice the size of its predecessor. Managing partner Orlando Bravo talks about how the firm evolved from a generalist private equity shop to a software specialist, and his own role in that transformation.
- Bain strikes second deal in Australia education sector
The firm’s investment came from its $3.3bn third Asia buyout fund.
- Bain raising first life sciences fund
The fund will be led by Adam Koppel, who rejoined the firm this year from biotechnology company Biogen, and Jeff Schwartz, who moves over from Bain’s private equity team.
- KKR to buy Nissan-backed auto parts company for $4.5bn
KKR kick-starts tender offer for Japanese company Calsonic Kansei, in a deal that would see the PE giant enhance the company’s R&D model.
- Australia’s Future Fund eyes tech start-ups
“The role of private equity and particularly venture capital and growth equity in the Future Fund’s portfolio is more important now than it has ever been,” said head of private equity, Steve Byrom.