Private Equity
The US interdealer broker is joining the ranks of institutions with a buyout fund to invest on its own and alongside clients and has hired a veteran banker to spearhead its efforts.
1 min read · 11 January 2013
MySpace may be sucking all the oxygen out of social networking in the US, but in Europe the game’s dominant players have yet to be decided. Dave Keating reports.
3 min read · 11 January 2013
German special situations manager has closed its second fund without breaking into a sweat, while Jon Moulton’s distressed debt fund underlines appetite for turnaround deals.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Blue Wolf Capital Management has used a commitment from South African investor Johnnic Holdings to make a $110m venture into the energy sector.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Luis Téllez, who helped establish the global buyout firm’s presence in Mexico in 2003, has left to take on the role of secretary of communications and transportation under the newly elected Mexican president.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The Partners Group fund has listed on the German exchange after 97 percent of bondholders voted for an early conversion of the 2010-dated convertible bond.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The co-founder of Hicks Muse Tate & Furst has joined with Investcorp to buy a part of Texas-based Greatwide Logistics Services.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Gilde Buy Out Partners is buying Groupe Novasep for €425 million, after materials business Rockwood Holding grew the company after a merger in 2004.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The Benelux-focused buyout firm has bought a subsidiary of the UK food business Uniq and sold CABB, a German specialty chemicals business to Axa Private Equity.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Astorg, a French mid-market firm, is hoping for a quicker fundraising for its fourth fund, which it will begin marketing in earnest next year, according to one investor.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
