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  • ECI books 6x on £300m CarTrawler(2)
    Yolanda Bobeldijk- 24 March 2014

    BC Partners fought off competition from Charterhouse to buy the Irish car rental group.

  • ECI books 6x on £300m CarTrawler
    Yolanda Bobeldijk- 24 March 2014

    BC Partners fought off competition from Charterhouse to buy the Irish car rental group.

  • Blackstone and Icahn move on Dell(2)
    Graham Winfrey- 23 January 2014

    Silver Lake could face two competing bids for PC-maker Dell, with a Blackstone-led group proposing a $14.25 per share offer, and financier Carl Icahn proposing $15 per share.

  • Bain seals $1.8bn exit to Hellman, JMI Equity
    Graham Winfrey- 27 November 2013

    The firm will sell insurance software company Applied Systems, which it acquired in 2006 for about $675m.

  • Bain seals $1.8bn exit to Hellman, JMI Equity
    Graham Winfrey- 26 November 2013

    The firm will sell insurance software company Applied Systems, which it acquired in 2006 for about $675m.

  • OMERS Private Equity exec moves to venture
    Chelsea Stevenson- 9 October 2013

    Jim Orlando, formerly a managing director at OMERS Private Equity, is transitioning to the retirement system’s venture capital division.

  • Blackstone and Icahn move on Dell
    Graham Winfrey- 21 September 2013

    Silver Lake could face two competing bids for PC-maker Dell, with a Blackstone-led group proposing a $14.25 per share offer, and financier Carl Icahn proposing $15 per share.

  • Insight closes Fund VIII on $2.57bn
    Graham Winfrey- 20 September 2013

    The New York-based firm surpassed its $2.4bn target and will invest up to 40% of the fund outside of the US.

  • Bain leads $6.9bn software take-private
    Graham Winfrey- 20 September 2013

    The acquisition of BMC Software by a group of investors including Golden Gate Capital, Insight Venture Partners and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation is the third private equity ‘mega-deal’ to transact in 2013.

  • Florida SBA commits $350m to private equity
    Chelsea Stevenson- 19 September 2013

    The State Board of Administration committed to two buyout funds and one growth fund during the second quarter of 2013.