Private Equity
The private equity arm of AIG will buy the North American port assets from the UK’s P&O Holdings, which is selling ports to a Dubai firm. The initial deal caused a national-security row among US policymakers.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The Dallas, Texas-based firm is dealing with an investigation into meat processing plants owned by Swift that may have employed illegal immigrants using stolen identities.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners have teamed up with management executives of healthcare software provider Netsmart Technologies in a $115m going-private deal.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Montreal, Canada-based mobile messaging solution provider OZ has raised a second round of financing, including an investment from the Caisse de dépôt.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Blackstone’s president Tony James gave a speech Thursday, touching on issues including public pensions' need for private equity, GP-LP relationships and the US presidential election.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
The Carlyle Group has acquired the company which owns Italian womenswear brand Twin Set Simona Barbieri in a deal understood to be worth between €250m and €300m.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
3i chief Simon Borrows hopes measures including office closures and 160 redundancies will revive the business' share price and pave the way for a return to third party fundraising.
4 min read · 06 January 2013
The US Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law should lead to a better environment for investing in healthcare businesses.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
The US Supreme Court’s decision on healthcare reform should help drive activity in the sector, according to industry sources including Bain Capital managing director Chris Gordon.
4 min read · 06 January 2013
Coller Capital will manage the $9.3bn state workers retirement system’s $100m mandate to buy assets on the secondaries market.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
