Private Equity
3i and SEB Företagsinvest are selling Swedish vaccine distributor SBL Vaccines to Dutch biotechnology company Crucell for €39.4 million, generating an approximate 16 times return of the vendors’ investment.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Hermes Private Equity has returned to the hospitality sector with a minority stake in a French holiday park operator, its first investment in the sector since it sold a hotel chain, Galaxie Hotels, in 2005.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The New York-based firm will add to its government outsourcing platform with this $600m transaction.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The emerging markets manager that spun out of CDC, a UK investor, is ramping up its fundraising with three funds in development and ten offices planned.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The New York-based private investment giant has further expanded its European presence with the acquisition of BAWAG bank.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The private equity arm of AIG will buy the North American port assets from the UK’s P&O Holdings, which is selling ports to a Dubai firm. The initial deal caused a national-security row among US policymakers.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Blackstone’s president Tony James gave a speech Thursday, touching on issues including public pensions' need for private equity, GP-LP relationships and the US presidential election.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
The Carlyle Group has acquired the company which owns Italian womenswear brand Twin Set Simona Barbieri in a deal understood to be worth between €250m and €300m.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
3i chief Simon Borrows hopes measures including office closures and 160 redundancies will revive the business' share price and pave the way for a return to third party fundraising.
4 min read · 06 January 2013
Jacana Partners, a private equity group co-founded by ECI non-executive chairman Stephen Dawson, will join a growing number of firms looking to raise capital for Africa next year.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
