Private Equity
The UK-based firm has agreed to sell a 40% stake in confectionery company Tangerine to The Blackstone Group for approximately £120m (€134m; $193m).
1 min read · 05 January 2013
A wave of incoming regulations is helping fuel activity in the secondaries market, which for some GPs means big compliance headaches.
8 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm has closed its seventh fund on $7bn and has raised an additional $650m for Lexington Middle Market Investors II, a complementary vehicle to invest in ‘young’ private equity interests.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Despite concern over consumer indebtedness and spending prospects, the retail sector continued to attract private equity investment during the economic downturn. Perhaps surprisingly, this is also true of the sluggish recovery period since the UK economy emerged from recession, writes Markus Golser, senior partner at Graphite Capital.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The French private equity firm has invested a further €15m in Fonroche Energy following an initial €25m equity investment in April last year.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity arm of the French insurance giant has reportedly paid €133m for 52% of Outremer Telecom from shareholders including Apax France.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Amid rumours of Carlyle’s IPO, K2 Advisors would be the Washington, DC firm’s third hedge fund acquisition in the past year.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
In a sign of limited partners’ interest in renewable and green energies, London-based zouk Capital has closed Europe’s largest fund for investments in clean technology.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Financial services-focused buyout firm AnaCap has completed its third acquisition of a bank after 18 months of negotiations, purchasing Czech Republic-based Banco Popolare Ceská republika.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
UK exit activity in the first six months of the year slightly outpaced new investments for the first time since 2006, according to CMBOR.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
