Private Equity
The global investment group has acquired European corporate gift distributor Polyconcept in a secondary buyout.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The European mid-market buyout firm sells French CCTV business UDL for a money multiple of almost 4x.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
More than six months after Burlington Coat Factory announced it was looking at strategic alternatives, Bain Capital has agreed to acquire the apparel retailer for $2.06bn.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The private equity firm has hired Rodney Cohen, a former partner with Lindsay Goldberg & Bessemer, just a few months after luring another partner from Blackstone.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The Capital Trust Group has launched a new vehicle dedicated to the Middle East and North Africa region with backing from the European Investment Bank.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The acquisition of a 30 percent stake in Israeli telecoms company Bezeq by a private equity consortium is the largest privatisation seen in the country so far this decade.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
According to figures presented at the AVCA’s annual conference in Mombasa earlier this week, VCs active in Africa invested $1.3bn last year, up 60% on 2003.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The former Amadeus Capital partner has signed on with the general partners of IDG Ventures’ $100m European fund.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Buyout firms Cinven and Investcorp appear to have arrived at a novel way of funding a portfolio company’s pension shortfall – selling one of its subsidiaries.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The London-based international private equity firm has closed its main office in Birmingham, the UK’s second-largest city, from where it had targeted deals in the West Midlands region.
3 min read · 30 December 2012
