Private Equity
UK-based retail specialist OpCapita has acquired struggling electrical goods chain Comet for £2 as its corporate owner Kesa Electricals looks to offload assets and retrench to its domestic market of France.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Private equity firm RJD Partners has made a 2.7x return on its investment Translinc, a fleet management company based in the UK.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Sagard Private Equity Partners is set to acquire dough-maker EuroDough from parent Sara Lee for €115m. If successful, it will be the firm’s first new investment since June last year.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Private equity compliance officers have a tough task getting portfolio companies up to speed with US and UK anti-corruption legislation, according to a new survey from Kroll.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
After struggling to find support in the early going, ArcLight’s fifth fund has thoroughly beaten its $2bn target and closed on $3.3bn.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Clayton Dubilier & Rice has reportedly bid for Greencore, food supplier to supermarkets such as Tesco. It comes six months after it hired ex-Tesco head Terry Leahy (pictured) as an advisor.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Cesar Baez, who launched Centinela in 2006, has left the firm. Baez once ran Hicks Muse Tate & Furst’s Latin America fund that had exposure to Argentina prior to the country’s default.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
Making good, consistent returns in emerging markets is still hugely challenging. But with developed markets stagnating, these fast-growing economies are becoming increasingly difficult for private equity investors to ignore.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
Private equity firms need to address ESG issues to create maximum value within their portfolios and meet LP expectations, a study by Doughty Hanson, the WWF and PwC has found.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
A lull in overall investment activity coupled with pressure to deploy capital in existing funds is expected to spark an uptick in private equity deal flow in Europe and the UK, according to a new study by BDO.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
