Private Equity
The wealth manager has hired Andrew Joy as a senior advisor, in a bid to continue expanding the firm’s private equity business.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The UK firm, which turned to a deal-by-deal approach after abandoning plans to raise a fund last year, is understood to be in talks to sell part of itself to Tikehau.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The divestment of the ophthalmology hospital chain comes as the firm is trying to raise $300m for its NBK Capital Equity Partners Fund II.
1 min read · 20 September 2013
The UK-focused firm has sold Dominion Gas, an Aberdeen-based oilfield services business, to New York-listed Praxair, for approximately £100m.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The Chinese conglomerate and European private equity firm have offered $700m to acquire the French resort operator to boost the company’s development in China.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
Actis has cut the target and changed the structure of its fourth fund after spending almost two years in the market targeting a total of $3.5bn.
3 min read · 20 September 2013
Blackstone, Lion and Carlyle are among 100 listed targets of anti-capitalist demonstrators planning to gather in London ahead of the G8 summit in June.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
Charles Steel, also a former Carlyle executive, will be heading the US firm’s private equity operations across the Atlantic.
1 min read · 20 September 2013
The London-listed private equity and infrastructure fund manager is seeking to acquire the $1.2bn European infrastructure business of Barclays.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The firm will acquire clothing retailer rue21 using capital from its Fund VIII, which is targeting close to €6bn. Apax previously owned a majority stake in rue21, which filed for a $125m IPO in 2009.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
