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The PEI Awards in picturesWe recently hosted an elegant black-tie dinner at London's Victoria & Albert Museum in honour of the winners of the 2008 Private Equity International Awards. Jeremy Coller, the founder and chief executive of secondaries firm Coller Capital, collected the second annual PEI Private Equity Leader award.
- CVC injects $175m to keep control of Samsonite
The European buyout house is the latest financial sponsor to enter negotiations with lenders. Elsewhere, lenders to roofing company Monier are trying to seize control of the business from private equity firm PAI.
- Bankruptcies boost flagging UK deal flow
The first quarter of the year was the quietest in terms of the number of buyouts in the UK since 1986, with the majority of deals involving targets in receivership, such as snooker and pool hall operator Rileys.
- Banking veteran to chair Italian alternatives firm
IDeA Alternative Investments has appointed as chairman Lino Benassi, whose chairmanships currently include Banca Italease and Credit Suisse Italy. IDeA plans to augment its private equity fund products with special situation, hedge, real estate and mezzanine products as well as to launch alternative investment firms in Southern Europe.
- TPG tops list of 300 largest firms
According to the PEI 300, Private Equity International magazine’s proprietary ranking of the world’s largest private equity firms, the firm led by David Bonderman has raised more capital for private equity direct investment than any other firm over the past five years.
- CVC hires head of US financial institutions team
Kamil Salame, former partner with DLJ Merchant Banking and managing director with Credit Suisse, will head up CVC’s financial institutions group from the US. The firm launched its financial institutions team last year.
- Barclays pays $97m for Bounty
Canadian online parenting platform Kaboose has sold its UK operations, Bounty Group, to Barclays Private Equity as well as around $18m worth of US assets to Disney Online. The media firm said it had had 'a difficult year'.
- Private equity-backed Pagine Gialle seeks €200m
The Italian directory business is shoring up its balance sheet as it prepares to refinance its debt burden. Permira, CVC, BC Partners and IA are together putting in €100m.
- CVC emerges as exclusive iShares bidder
The London-based buyout house is the last bidder standing in the battle for Barclays Group’s ETF business. The deal will reportedly be worth up to £3bn and largely financed with a loan from Barclays.
- CVC Asia Pacific to divest 70% stake in I-Med division
The private equity firm will sell off one of the Australian company's subsidiaries, reported to be its oncology and cardiology diagnostics business, which could fetch up to A$210m. CVC Asia Pacific bought I-Med's parent in an A$2.7bn deal in 2006.