Private Equity
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has agreed to buy U.S. life insurance and reinsurance provider Wilton Re Holdings Ltd for $1.8 billion from a group of private equity firms, the first foray by the global deal-maker into the U.S. insurance business.
2 min read · 21 March 2014
Canadian private equity investment firm Onex Corp said it would sell The Warranty Group, a provider of extended warranty contracts, to an affiliate of TPG Capital for an enterprise value of about $1.5 billion.
1 min read · 21 March 2014
The Riverside Company has a definite type of deal that it likes. And back in 2009, the lower-mid-market buyout shop took a shine to Capol GmbH, whose polishing and anti-sticking agents are used to make such products as jellybeans, gummy bears and aspirin.
4 min read · 19 March 2014
The U.S. auto industry was hit particularly hard by the Great Recession, but that didn’t stop SunTx Capital Partners from scoring a big gain on an auto supplier during a 7.5-year holding period.
4 min read · 19 March 2014
1 min read · 17 March 2014
Firms that aren't thinking about ways to bolster their operational value creation capability in Asia are in danger of being left behind.
3 min read · 14 March 2014
Red-hot institutional demand for U.S. leveraged loans has produced a string of aggressive deals for fashion retail companies, including an aggressive buyout financing backing buyout firm Sycamore Partners’s takeover of The Jones Group apparel company, sister service Thomson Reuters Loan Pricing Corp reported.
5 min read · 10 March 2014
2 min read · 10 March 2014
In their first annual report “Navigating the headwinds: 2014 global private equity survey,” EY and PEI found that the largest regulatory change expected to impact the private equity industry is the implementation of FACTA by the US government, with 55 and 41 percent of CFOs believing that it will either have a high impact or medium impact, respectively.
1 min read · 07 March 2014
<p>LPs seem to love secondaries at the moment. Is there a danger that too much money is being raised?</p>
3 min read · 07 March 2014
