Private Equity
CVC Capital Partners has announced plans for a follow-up vehicle to the $750m Asia fund launched in 2000 which is now 80 percent invested.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
German private equity firm Deutsche Beteiligungs (DBAG) has announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in axle manufacturer Otto Sauer Achsenfabrik Keilberg (SAF).
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Figures published for Asian private equity activity in 2003 reveal that a record $17.5bn was invested while fundraising was up eleven percent at $3bn.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Struggling Dutch distribution company Hagemeyer, which is currently considering the sale of part of its equity to a financial investor, has sold its technical tape unit to Gilde Investment for E33m.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The private equity units of Allianz and Goldman Sachs have sold their majority interest in the German industrial gases company to French group Air Liquide in a €2.68bn deal.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Recovery in the UK private equity market could be threatened by Government policy, according to the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) chairman.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Electra Partners Europe has agreed to back a E205m management buyout at Aliplast, the European conservatory and window systems supplier based in Belgium.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
'Enronitis' and America's 'No Growth' economic future are threatening to stifle entrepreneurial spirits in the US, argues Joseph W. Bartlett, Of Counsel Fish & Richardson.
10 min read · 30 December 2012
Permira has sold German leather chemicals business TFL to German private equity house Odewald & Compagnie in a deal reportedly worth E200m.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Italian private equity firm has maintained its recent spate of deal activity, acquiring chemical production business Giovanni Bozzetto for an undisclosed sum.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
