Private Equity
The Boca Raton, Florida-based turnaround private equity firm has closed its sixth fund on $6 billion – a 300 percent increase over its previous fund.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
French buyout firm Astorg and mezzanine provider Intermediate Capital have bought pharmaceutical company Groupe Ethypharm for an undisclosed sum.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Intel Capital has led a $40 million investment round for a company aiming to provide better television reception for the whole of China.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
UK-based Baird Capital Partners has doubled its money by selling cooling manufacturer SHE to RACO, an Italian automotive manufacturing group.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Buyout firm Industri Kapital has exited from Elektrokoppar after nearly 10 years invested in the company and several difficult economic cycles in the copper industry.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The two groups have bought a majority stake in imaging services provider Alliance Imaging from KKR in a deal worth about $153m.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Buyout firms Cognetas and Sagard have triumphed in the race to buy Desjonquères, the bottle-making division of French group Saint-Gobain.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
UBL Asset Management, a new subsidiary of India’s UTI Bank, is looking to raise a $500 million private equity fund to invest in India’s infrastructure.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Wong Kwong Yu, one of China’s richest men and founder of the country’s largest electronics retailer is partnering the private equity arm of Bear Stearns to launch an alliance to capture opportunities in China’s retail sector.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
CCMP Capital Advisors, a US-based buyout firm with a long track record in Asia, has won the €685m auction for BOC Edwards, a vacuum equipment business with a large customer base in the region.
2 min read · 03 January 2013