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CVC hires former HSBC France CEOCharles-Henri Filippi will advise the global private equity firm on French investment opportunities.
- CVC to inject A$335m into struggling media company
The new equity will increase CVC Asia Pacific's current 75 percent stake in PBL Media. Meanwhile the firm is going to court over an add-on acquisition to Asia Timber Products.
- Report: Private equity firms eye €800m deal for Clece
Permira, Apax, CVC and PAI are reportedly lining up against two trade buyers as they consider bids to carve out Clece, a support services firm, from construction conglomerate ACS in the latest example of a Spanish building group selling off non-core assets.
- Relishing youth
Having spent the last few years positioning itself as a rapidly maturing market, Spain may yet be thankful for its youth, writes Toby Mitchenall.
- Infrastructure dealmakers eye $100 trillion in global assets
Blackstone infrastructure co-head Trent Vichie and Chris Leslie, CEO of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, say only a fraction of what's needed for infrastructure investment worlwide has been raised by private funds. Meanwhile CVC’s infrastructure chief, Stephen Vineburg, also speaking at PEI’s Infrastructure Forum in New York, said infrastructure investing has reached a third stage in development.
- Boris Johnson praises private equity
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said that private equity was ‘absolutely vital’ to the UK economy, at the opening of a private equity-funded East London community centre this Friday. Johnson was speaking to an audience of volunteers from private equity firms, charity sector representatives and local residents.
- Industry fears anti-capitalist sweep from Brussels
Concern is mounting that EU legislators will introduce new rules for financial services in general that will do disproportionate damage to private equity in Europe.
- CVC buys stake in US travel center company
The deal for Pilot Travel Centers was sourced by the private equity firm’s recently established US advisory board.
- Private equity buyouts decrease, shrink in size in 2008
Difficult financing conditions continued to soften global buyout activity for private equity firms, with deal volumes plunging 72 percent in the first nine months of 2008. The oil and gas and mining sectors as well as Japan, India and the Middle East remained bright spots.
- Montagu delays €1.9bn BSN sale
Worries that initial bids were not deliverable in current market conditions led the former captive of HSBC to withdraw its German medical supplies company from an auction process.