Private Equity
Working with a former portfolio company of its Australian affiliate, the New York-based private equity firm has picked up AmeriCast Technologies.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Figures for the third quarter show a sharp decline in venture fundraising.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The private equity arm of the financial services giant has added Richard Markee, who brings a strong background in the international retail sector from his work at Toys ‘R’ Us and Target.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Gresham Private Equity has sold a care worker recruitment company, in the company’s second exit in a week.
1 min read · 11 January 2013
The portfolio deal specialist has bought four food businesses for a total of £160m in its second deal of the year
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Wellcome Trust, an independent charity funding research into human and animal health, will increase spending by 17 percent following returns of 16 percent in the trust’s alternative investments portfolio for the last three years.
1 min read · 11 January 2013
Eurazeo has cancelled plans for an initial public offering of truck rental business Fraikin and is selling the company to CVC Capital while reinvesting $60 million in the new entity.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
MySpace may be sucking all the oxygen out of social networking in the US, but in Europe the game’s dominant players have yet to be decided. Dave Keating reports.
3 min read · 11 January 2013
German special situations manager has closed its second fund without breaking into a sweat, while Jon Moulton’s distressed debt fund underlines appetite for turnaround deals.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Global firm Advent International is continuing with its buy-and-build consolidation of Italy’s coffee-vending operator sector.
1 min read · 11 January 2013
