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Investors clamour for Apollo fund listingAP Alternative Assets, the publicly quoted private equity fund launched last week by Apollo Management, a US buyout house, has raised a third more then expected.
- Listed KKR fund has $1.6bn in deals
KKR Private Equity Investors, which raised $4.8bn in May, has committed $1.6bn to recent KKR deals and $1.9bn to the firm’s 2006 Fund.
- €2bn Lafarge unit on PE radar
Bids for the roofing division of Lafarge, a global cement group, are being considered by a dozen private equity firms as well as trade buyers, according to a French report.
- Turnaround for Archie Norman
Archie Norman, former grocer, politician and corporate turnaround specialist, set up a new investment company, Aurigo Management, last month. Robert Venes speaks to Norman about his latest venture.
- BC buys Brenntag from Bain
Bain Capital will sell Brenntag, a German chemical distribution company, to UK private equity firm BC Partners for around €3 billion.
- CVC sells DT Group for €1.5bn
CVC Capital Partners has sold Danish building materials retailer DT Group for €1.5bn, three years after acquiring the business in a €540m public-to-private.
- GI Partners acquires Spirit Group portfolio
The US and UK-based investor has paid £571m for 290 managed pubs from Punch Taverns, its largest deal in Europe to date.
- Cinven breaks European buyout fundraising record
Spectacular early returns from its third fund have helped Cinven, a European large cap buyout group, to a record fundraising but rival firm Permira is hard on its heels.
- Permira ups cap, closes in on €11bn
The pan-European LBO leader has told prospective investors that Permira Europe IV will accept an additional €1bn in commitments to close on a revised target of €10.835 billion.
- Jarvis’ Lovell to join Terra Firma
Alan Lovell, who announced his departure from Jarvis today, is reportedly joining Guy Hands’ private equity firm to help take a waste management business to a sale or listing.