Private Equity
CVC’s €600m purchase of Skrill comes just days after it invested €800m in Domestic and General and entered exclusive talks to acquire Campbell Soup's European business.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
The UK development finance institution has partnered Abraaj to back healthcare chain Rainbow Hospitals.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The £32.2m investment in the facilities management division of AIM-listed Johnson Service Group is the second deal of Lyceum’s third fund, which closed on £330m at the end of last year.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
After acquiring the company for about $2bn in 2007, Apax Partners will sell Hub International to its peer Hellman & Friedman.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
Mounting macroeconomic concerns are making deals harder to execute in Turkey – but easing competition may help bring down valuations, delegates heard at PEI’s Turkey Forum in Istanbul.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
Ashwin Roy left Citi Venture Capital International in early August to head the State General Reserve Fund of Oman’s private equity programme.
1 min read · 19 September 2013
Silicon Valley-headquartered Greylock Partners has used capital from 14 funds to invest in Facebook, Pandora, ZipCar and other online marketplaces and social networks.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The Octopus-backed UK business, which provides electronic transaction processing for fund managers, has some high-powered new backers as it eyes overseas expansion.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The amount likely represents a first close for the Chinese conglomerate’s private equity vehicle, which is targeting $1bn for outbound investment.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The fund’s advisory board includes several US foreign policy heavyweights, including General Wesley Clarke and terror-expert Richard Clarke.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
