Marc Thiery, formerly of Allianz Private Equity Partners and Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, has joined Englefield Capital as a partner.
Four partners and another 12 professionals specialising in private equity have defected from Deloitte to join rival KPMG’s private equity group in London.
London-based Terra Firma Capital Partners has sold Wizard Inns, the 63-strong managed pub group, to Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries for £96.7 million.
The New York buyout firm has agreed to sell its medical equipment platform Home Care Supply to Praxair Healthcare Services.
Boston-based equity house Bain Capital has agreed to purchase the phosphates business from the French specialty chemicals group.
The Swedish private equity firm has agreed to sell Wilson Logistics Group to Dutch mail, express and logistics company TPG for SEK2.35bn.
Lloyds Development Capital has sold its 56 percent shareholding in British clothing retail chain Ethel Austin to ABN Amro Capital.
Julian Mash, Chief Executive of Vision Capital, provides a case study in how investors can achieve liquidity in the private equity asset class via a secondary direct portfolio transaction, or 'synthetic secondary'.
Barclays Private Equity has backed the £44 million secondary management buyout of Antler Group, the UK luggage brand, from Royal Bank Equity Finance.
Claudio Aguirre Pemán, a former head of Spanish operations at Merrill Lynch, has joined Spanish private equity investor Mercapital to help the firm raise and invest capital.