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Quiet rock starsDavos' private equity 'rock stars' have been stunned into silence – or conversely spurred into urging large-scale financial reform.
- EQT parent suffers SEK3.5bn losses
Investor AB has said ‘an exceptional year’ characterised by ‘market declines of a magnitude not seen since the 1930s,’ were among reasons it disappointed shareholders for a second straight year with ‘unsatisfactory’ returns.
- Baring investigates copycat websites
Using a Chinese name similar to the Asian private equity firm, an organisation has allegedly set up websites with material copied straight from Baring’s own website.
- Last round: You’ve chosen the finalists, now choose the winners
The final voting round is open for the Private Equity International Awards. Will Apax again be voted European LBO firm of the year? Is the best North American LP still Yale? Can Advent again take the honours in Latin America? Might Abraaj be displaced as best Middle Eastern firm? Influence all these races and more by voting now.
- EQT, ATP to buy Danish IT company for $341m
European buyout firm EQT will own 85% of KMD following the buyout from Local Government Denmark to be completed in early 2009.
- 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.
- EQT opens in Warsaw
The Nordic buyout firm is joining the likes of IK Partners, Candover and Advent as it seeks to take a slice of the Central and Eastern European market. Piotr Czapski, a technology specialist, will lead the push.
- EQT sells hoist company for $53m
The Nordic firm’s turnaround fund purchased Germany’s Pfaff Beteiligungs two years ago, and has since increased sales from $64m to nearly $90m.
- EQT Opportunity backs retailer
The Nordic special situations firm has seen an opportunity in a Swedish farmer-owned retailer, which sells to pet lovers, householders and farmers.
- Marcus Wallenberg joins Temasek Board
Singapore’s Temasek Holdings latest appointment is a member of the wealthy and influential Swedish industrial Wallenberg family, dubbed the 'Royal Family of Swedish business.'