Private Equity
Ethos Private Equity, one of South Africa’s largest domestic buyout firms, and Goldman Sachs are heading a consortium to buy local casino Gold Reef Resorts, in the US investment bank’s first deal in the country.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
European buyout firm Cinven’s £2 billion bid for two divisions of media group Emap is the second largest new offer since debt market turmoil decimated the market for leveraged loans.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Middle East, North Africa and South Asia specialist has sold its 2005 investment in fast-growing Maktoob.com to a hedge fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Three Delta has withdrawn its bid for Sainsbury’s citing the problems in the credit markets and an equity increase demanded by the UK supermarket’s pension trustees.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Serkan Elden has returned to AIG Investments to spearhead its investment activities in Turkey, having left the firm after a six-year spell in 2004.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Walker Report has given the Delta Two bid for J Sainsbury an extra sheen of respectability and is a sign the industry may take compliance seriously, writes Nicholas Lockley, editor of PEO.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The lower middle market private equity firm has made its first Israel acquisition as an add-on for Hungarian portfolio company Diatron.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Serkan Elden has returned to AIG Investments to spearhead its investment activities in Turkey, having left the firm after a six-year spell in 2004.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK retailer could become the second FTSE100 retailer to go private after Boots Alliance. In a bid to appease its critics Delta Two has become the first fund to commit to the Walker Report's standards of transparency and disclosure.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Teachers' has named Erol Uzumeri, who currently manages international private equity investments at the Canadian pension, to succeed Jim Leech as head of its private equity arm.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
