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Buyout pair books 7x exitBuyout firms Cinven and BC Partners have sold their remaining shares in travel company Amadeus.
- EQT set to hit €4.75bn hard-cap
The firm has collected more than €4bn for control-oriented, mid-market investments in Sweden, Germany, Norway and Denmark as well as secondary activity in Central Europe.
- Palamon re-hires investment team member
Julian Carreras, who left Palamon Capital Partners in 2006, has re-joined after stints at Cinven and Thesan Capital, as the firm looks to bolster its Spanish coverage.
- CVC bulks up with Virgin Active deal
CVC, no stranger to partnering with entrepreneurs after investing in F1 with Bernie Ecclestone, has acquired a majority stake in a gym chain owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.
- PA Schools commit to Cinven
The Fifth Cinven Fund launched in March and is targeting less than its predecessor's €6.5bn fundraising in 2006.
- Cerberus receives big commitment on first senior debt fund
In addition to committing $200m to Cerberus’s mid-market senior debt fund, the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System committed almost $300m across three private equity funds.
- Nordic reaps huge return on sale to rival
Buyout firm Nordic Capital has sold one of the ‘jewels’ of its portfolio to regional rival EQT, generating a substantial return in the process.
- BC Partners within whisker of €6bn target
Buyout firm BC Partners has held a second close for its latest mega-fund just shy of its €6bn target, demonstrating that top tier firms are still able to attract significant amounts of capital despite a difficult fundraising environment.
- 3i veteran joins Cinven
Jorge Quemada, a 13 year veteran of UK-listed 3i Group’s private equity team, has left the buyout house to take up a position at rival Cinven.
- BC fund kicks off with €1.9bn deal
BC Partners has made its first acquisition with capital from its latest mega-fund, winning the hotly-contested auction for Swedish cable company Com Hem with a bid of SKr17bn (€1.9bn; $2.7bn).