2004 was the busiest year for the UK market since 2000, according to statistics released by global professional service firm KPMG.
The global private equity firm has repurchased the shares it sold to financial services giant Credit Suisse Group in 1999.
Palamon Capital Partners is understood to have made a profit of around six times cash invested from the sale of its stake in Italian software provider TeamSystem to Bain Capital and management.
BancBoston Capital and Indigo Capital have sold Menzies Hotels Group to the European principal finance arm of Nikko Cordial.
The Tokyo-based buyout house has announced the final closing of its second private equity fund on 75bn yen: 50% ahead of its original target.
Apparently alarmed by claims made in a 2002 conspiracy-theory book, the acting governor of New Jersey has asked counter-terrorism officials 'take a careful look' at Investcorp, a Bahrain-based private equity firm that is attempting to buy a New Jersey was
Publicly traded ‘business development company’ Allied Capital, long the target of short-selling hedge funds, is now the subject of a criminal probe over its valuation of loans made by a portfolio company.
Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners have teamed to buy WRQ, a developer of software that emulates legacy software.
Regardless of which bidder ends up buying Korea First Bank, its current 49 percent owner, US private equity firm Newbridge Capital, stands to make a cool $1bn profit on a groundbreaking 1999 investment.
The global private equity firm reportedly expects to invest as much as $400m in Chinese companies over the next two to three years.