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  • Advent opens in Istanbul
    Amanda Janis- 5 January 2013

    The global mid-market firm has opened an office in Turkey, where it first became active in 2001.

  • BC and Silver Lake reunite for $3.1bn buyout
    Nicholas Donato- 5 January 2013

    The buyout of healthcare services firm MultiPlan will be the third collaboration between the two private equity giants.

  • Barclays spin-out ‘dependent on fundraising’
    Toby Mitchenall- 5 January 2013

    Barclays Private Equity will only spin out from its banking parent once fundraising for its fourth fund is well underway.

  • News analysis: The extend is your friend
    Jenna Gottlieb- 5 January 2013

    As seen last week with BC Partners, GPs increasingly need to extend investment periods in order to deploy dry powder that languished during the economic crisis.

  • BC Partners wins fund extensions from LPs
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The London-based firm is extending the investment period on its current Fund VIII to June 2011 and the hold period on Fund VII for two years.

  • Riverside hires education veteran
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The mid-market firm has hired education veteran Bob Bowen as senior advisor as part of an expansion in education and training.

  • BC Partners raises €748m in listing
    Kevin Ley- 5 January 2013

    The private equity firm sold nearly 15m shares in chemical company Brenntag in a heated German IPO market.

  • Providence-backed KDG raises €760m
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    Germany’s largest cable television operator has gone public in the largest IPO in Germany since 2007.

  • Clean exit
    Toby Mitchenall- 5 January 2013

    AXA’s €600m sale of Spotless Group could provide a blueprint for future private equity ownership.

  • AXA makes clean exit with Spotless sale
    Toby Mitchenall- 5 January 2013

    BC Partners has acquired the laundry product business in a secondary buyout that values the company at €600m.