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Corporate disposals to boost German dealflowAmid a renewed appetite for M&A, competition for quality assets is growing more intense – but readily available financing now puts buyout firms and trade bidders on a similar playing field, says law firm CMS Hasche Sigle.
- BC Partners to list Foxtons
The London-headquartered firm, which bought Foxtons for £375m in 2007, plans to raise £55m via an initial public offering of the estate agent on the London Stock Exchange.
- Vitruvian eyes £800m for Fund II
The European mid-market firm founded by former Apax and BC Partners professionals is planning to raise a similar amount as it did for Fund I.
- Equistone reaps €1bn from Global Blue exit
The sale of travel payment services company Global Blue to Silver Lake Partners and Partners Group means Equistone has returned almost two-thirds of Fund III to investors after just eight exits.
- TIAA-CREF marches on with commitments
Amid some turnover within its alternative investment programme, the $464bn institution has committed to Vestar, Ridgemont and Natural Gas Partners.
- Friday Letter: Rattled
It’s already the stuff of City legend: some ten years ago, Guy Hands came from nowhere and rocked the boat by using securitisation as a funding instrument in leveraged acquisitions.
- Friday Letter: Public vs Private
Knight Vinke Asset Management continues to fan the flames of shareholder resistance to the proposed €7.4 billion private equity-backed takeover of Dutch business information group VNU. It is as though Knight Vinke is enacting a kind of tribute to another institutional investor which took a similar stance not long ago.
- Friday Letter: Appetite for creation
History does not repeat itself, but it can act as a guide as to what to expect.
- Friday Letter holding versus folding
BC Partners has been vilified in the mainstream press over a high profile deal gone wrong. But its willingness to see UK estate agents Foxtons through turbulent times illustrates an important, laudable quality in private equity investment strategies today.
- Friday Letter Turkish delight
Turkey is increasingly on the minds of private equity participants: PEI’s standing room only conference in Istanbul this week highlighted a market brimming with possibilities.