Private Equity
Montagu Private Equity has made 3x on the sale of ghd – maker of flat irons and hair dryers – to Lion Capital.
2 min read · 22 January 2014
The firm has purchased five fund stakes from a bank just a week after purchasing a £160m portfolio of assets from UBM’s data services division.
2 min read · 22 January 2014
Metric Capital Partners, a private debt fund manager founded in 2011 by former Towerbrook and UBS executive John Sinik, is nearing the finishing line for its first fundraising.
1 min read · 22 January 2014
The firm announced in December the hiring of former Blackstone executive Sal Gentile to head its North American efforts and is adding to the US-based team.
2 min read · 22 January 2014
Sir Stuart Rose, Marks and Spencer’s former boss, will become chair of UK clothing chain Fat Face nearly six years after Bridgepoint acquired the company.
2 min read · 22 January 2014
The UK firm’s investment in UBM’s data services division comes following a 12-month period in which Electra completed seven exits.
2 min read · 22 January 2014
Southern Europe continues to face huge economic challenges – challenges so great that they may yet bring down the entire Eurozone. But although investing within the region is more difficult than ever before, local managers say there are still good deals to be found
9 min read · 22 January 2014
With 45% of its revenues coming from Latin America, Probos fits well with the strategy that N+1 has been actively pursuing since its merger with Spanish rival Mercapital.
2 min read · 22 January 2014
Singapore has inked a double tax agreement with the European fund domicile in an attempt to pull in more Asian private equity funds.
2 min read · 22 January 2014
Technology behemoth Microsoft has provided one of the biggest ever mezzanine loans to fund US buyout group Silver Lake’s record-breaking, $24bn buyout of Dell.
3 min read · 22 January 2014
