Private Equity
The Toronto-based firm exceeded its $200m target and expects to close its debut secondaries fund in December.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
The firm will acquire high-end shoemaker Allen Edmonds from Minnesota-based private equity firm Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison, which has owned the company since 2006.
1 min read · 07 November 2013
London-listed 3i has agreed to buy a further 49% of Nordic ferry operator Scandlines, using capital from its €5bn Eurofund V that was reserved for add-on acquisitions.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
The firm is nearing its $500m target for the fund, which held a first close on $41m in January.
1 min read · 07 November 2013
The private equity firm has sold a stake worth A$562m in Transpacific Industries Group, which has been divesting business units after making an H1 loss.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
The Chinese private equity firm has taken a 50% stake in Tethys Petroleum’s Kazakh oil and gas assets as its first major investment in the country.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
The investment in Jenny Craig comes as the US-based firm, which targets consumer businesses in the health and wellness sector, attempts to collect $250 million for its fifth fund.
1 min read · 07 November 2013
The firm has named former Warburg Pincus managing director Kewsong Lee as its first deputy CIO for private equity and a member of each fund’s investment committee.
1 min read · 07 November 2013
The firm has hired two investment professionals and relocated a third to strengthen its Benelux team, which will move from London to Amsterdam in 2014.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
Debt and mezzanine firm Intermediate Capital Group has three professionals dedicated to Asia fundraising with the aim of tapping institutional capital, says managing director Chris Heine.
3 min read · 07 November 2013
