Pan-European private equity firm Bridgepoint has seen off opposition bidders, securing exclusivity to purchase the prison management unit of Group 4 Falck for a reported £200m.
3i and Veronis Suhler Stevenson have announced the consolidation of their three telephone businesses to create a pan-European directories group.
The Boston firm agrees to sell the sign maker to Brady Corp. and also completes a co-investment with Berkshire in radiological protection services company Bartlett Nuclear.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice takes over the laboratory supplies company from pharmaceuticals group Merck, putting $450m of its own equity toward the deal.
ALPHA Associates, which manages the former third-party private equity business of Swiss Life, has revealed plans to raise a new fund of funds vehicle to invest in Eastern European opportunities.
Inflexion Private Equity has announced the management buyout of Healthcare Knowledge Systems International, the second investment from its Private Equity Fund 2.
Ewen Macpherson, former chief executive of 3i, has been appointed non-executive director of Hotbed.
As private equity continues to mature as an asset class, sophisticated investors are increasingly turning to the secondaries market as a method of actively managing their private equity exposure. Here Ivan Vercoutère and Wolfgang Müller of LGT Capital Partners outline the benefits and the challenges of using the secondary market as an active portfolio management tool from the perspective of both the “buyside” and the “sellside”.
CVC Capital Partners, the pan-European private equity firm, has appointed Sir Ian Robinson and John Sunderland to its UK advisory board.
A rash of recent realisations from private equity-backed businesses suggests that exit routes are once more opening up after a fallow period.
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