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HarbourVest extends SVG offer deadline by 7 daysHarbourVest is giving shareholders more time to consider its offer after SVG said it planned to sell its entire portfolio to Goldman Sachs and CPPIB for around £748 million.
- Asia roundtable: Expect Chinese outbound M&A to grow
Chinese buyers have snapped up more than $100bn in overseas assets this year, thanks in part to a loosening of rules on investing abroad, and participants in PEI’s Asia roundtable say the appetite for foreign deals is set to grow.
- Who might be a white knight for SVG?
PEI weighs up the possibilities, using sister title Secondaries Investor’s SI 30, a ranking of the world’s top secondaries firms by capital raised in the past five years, as a starting point.
- SVG plots defence amid search for white knight
Under the City Code, the London-listed private equity investor has until 29 September to publish its defence document in response to HarbourVest’s 650p-a-share bid.
- Schroders backs SVG as HarbourVest deadline looms
SVG’s second-largest shareholder says it is ‘supportive of the SVG management’ as the UK private equity investor fends off an unsolicited bid from US rival HarbourVest.
- SVG fends off HarbourVest bid with NAV uplift - update
The London-listed private equity investor urged shareholders to take no action on HarbourVest’s £1bn bid, saying the 650p-a-share final offer ‘undervalues the company’.
- SEC bans Andrew Caspersen from the industry
The former Park Hill partner - who pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of $38.5 million – has been permanently banned from working in the private equity industry.
- Coller eyes 6.5x return from SVG
Coller bought 50m shares in the listed private equity investor at 100 pence a share in the depths of the financial crisis, and would receive 650 pence a share if an unsolicited bid for SVG Capital succeeds.
- NorthEdge appoints CFO
The Northern England-focused buyout firm has brought in former LivingBridge CFO Prem Mohan Raj.
- LP Special: Development squad
These would-be private equity investors have yet to commit wholeheartedly to the asset class, but if they did the impact would be significant.