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SVG launches hedge fundThe private equity investor and asset management company has launched its first hedge fund to exploit its proprietary investment techniques to the full.
- Advent promotes lucky thirteen
Advent has made a string of promotions across its European and North American offices, including three new partners.
- Consortium increases offer for AWG
A consortium including 3i and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has increased its offer for UK water utility AWG from £15.55 to £15.78 as banks including Merrill Lynch and Macquarie Bank show interest in the event of failure to acquire rival business Thames Water.
- Three groups make formal offers for Thames Water
Three groups led by Terra Firma Capital Partners, UBS and Macquarie are understood to have made formal offers in the auction for Thames Water, a UK water company owned by German utility RWE.
- 3i eyes £300m bid for SMG
SMG, a Scottish media group with radio and television assets, is reportedly interested in pursuing private equity bids despite a merger proposal from smaller rival UTV.
- Permira sparks bidding war for UK housebuilder
European buyout firm Permira looks to make it third time lucky with McCarthy & Stone, a UK housebuilder, after losing out on UK public-to-private bids for HMV, a music retailer, and DeVere Group, a hotel chain.
- £1.1bn battle for McCarthy & Stone heats up
A £1.1bn revised bid by a consortium including Bank of Scotland and West Coast Capital’s Tom Hunter for McCarthy & Stone, a UK homes builder, has trumped a recommended offer by Permira and Barclays Capital.
- Bridgepoint makes 5.5 times money on £320m All3Media sale
Permira, a European buyout firm, has bought All3Media, maker of UK television programmes Richard and Judy and Formula One, from Bridgepoint for £320m.
- Buyout M&A in Europe totals $135bn in 2006
Sponsor-backed M&A in Europe was slightly down on first half figures for 2005 although the average deal size rose.
- Silver Lake clinches Serena Software deal
Silver Lake Partners agreed to take Serena Software private for roughly $1.2 billion, in what has been a busy week for public-to-private transactions.