Private Equity
In the 10 years since the launch of Bridges Ventures, the UK group has witnessed a sea change in the way LPs think about social investment
3 min read · 21 September 2013
3i continues to shed staff and sell assets, and has given up on the idea of raising another buyout fund any time soon. These are anxious times for one of the UK’s oldest and best-known private equity groups
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Findus’s implication in the UK horse meat scandal has illustrated how damaging supply chain issues can be to a portfolio company’s performance and reputation. But to what extent can GPs mitigate these risks?
4 min read · 21 September 2013
Why David Rubenstein thinks politicians are like giant pandas
2 min read · 21 September 2013
TrimCo in 2005 was a small Hong Kong-based supplier of care-and-content labels to apparel brands that manufactured in Southern China. It was a 30-year-old, family-owned shop that had reached a plateau – just the kind of business that appeals to Navis Capital Partners, a small-cap buyout firm based in Malaysia.
5 min read · 21 September 2013
Turkey has been tipped for some time to become a hotbed of private equity activity, given its geographic position between Europe and Asia and its strong supply of founder- and family-owned companies ripe for expansion. Now, nearly a decade since Turkish private equity got its start, and with GDP growth forecast to hit 5% in 2013, PEI talks to four of the market’s key players to find out if Turkish private equity is finally set to take off.
10 min read · 21 September 2013
Deutsche Beteiligungs has invested €10.6m -- €4.4m from its balance sheet and the remainder from its Expansion Capital Fund to acquire a minority stake in telecom business Inexio.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
As implementation of the European Commission's Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive looms, new regulations are unlikely to touch GPs outside the European Union.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The turnaround specialist is to invest £40m in the courier company, whose fortunes are said to be slowly recovering after five years of significant losses.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The French firm has bought Europe’s largest own-label ice cream maker for €850m, the latest deal by its 2008-vintage Fund V.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
