Private Equity
UK wealth manager and online investment broker Bestinvest marks Permira’s second investment from its Fund V, having acquired UK boots maker Dr. Martens last month.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
Cinven is the latest firm to take advantage of helpful credit conditions by refinancing CPA - which will allow it to take out a dividend recap of about £180m after just 18 months of ownership.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
The firm has hired Goodwin Proctor’s Jeffrey Hadden (pictured) as COO and has appointed former Deloitte & Touche partner Kevin Masse to the role of chief portfolio officer.
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 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
The California-based technology specialist told LPs that it could have raised four times its original $500 million target for its second fund focused on smaller-cap companies.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
Committing to better ESG performance is one thing; tracking and measuring it is quite another.
3 min read · 07 November 2013
As private equity attracts more critical attention, it must do a better job of highlighting its positive impact on the wider economy to avoid further regulation, an Investec study suggests.
3 min read · 07 November 2013
The UK firm has now realised most of the investments in the £235m Gresham Fund III, after selling specialist oil and gas recruitment provider Swift to US firm Wellspring.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
