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Exponent makes six appointmentsThe start-up private equity firm has hired a finance director and five investment professionals to help invest its debut £400m fund.
- BC Partners sells sports bike maker
BC Partners has realised its investment in a 49% interest in KTM, the Austrian sports motorcycle maker it helped take private in 1999.
- Truffle hogs
Germany's weakened economy remains difficult territory for financial sponsors to negotiate. Incumbents dig deep to come up with the goods. Is the hard work paying off, asks Philip Borel
- Direct effect
Three Canadian pensions are among the biggest direct private equity investors in the country. Teachers', OMERS and the Caisse are at turns partners, rivals and emulators of each other, and their respective programmes are the results of wildly divergent histories. David Snow reports from Toronto and Montreal
- Carlyle realises Riello holding
The Carlyle Groups has sold its 50 percent interest in Italian burner and boiler manufacturer Riello Group to the Riello family.
- Candover buys sports company for €465m
Nordic private equity firm EQT has sold Swedish sports utility transportation company Thule AB to Candover.
- Competitive tensions
There is no shortage of players in the French buyout market, which has been a popular destination for institutional investors in recent years.With corporates starting to re-emerge as potential bid rivals to private equity firms, auctions are getting crowded. Andy Thomson took the Eurostar to Paris
- Candover sells Picard to BC for €1.3bn
Candover, the London-based European private equity investor, has realised over 2.7 times capital invested from the €1.3bn sale of Picard Surgeles to fellow private equity firm BC Partners.
- Terra Firma double bill
The buyout group has beaten off competition from rivals to acquire two of the UK’s leading cinema chains Odeon and UCI for close to £600m.
- Bain to buy Canada’s SuperPages for $1.54bn
Following KKR's stunning success on a similar deal, the Boston firm agrees to buy Verizon’s directory operations in Canada.