Private Equity
BC Partners is understood to have paid up to £700m for the mobile phone retailer, in what will probably be the penultimate investment from its 2005 fund.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity and real estate firm has bought a portfolio of residential mortgages backed by assets in the Netherlands.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Universities Superannuation Scheme is also growing its co-investment programme, having made six private equity co-investments in 2010 totaling about £120m.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The global mid-market firm has acquired Provimi Pet Food, Europe’s third largest private label pet food company.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm has sold Advanced Childcare for £28m (€32m; $45m), and has backed the management buyout of UK neurological rehabilitation centre Glenside Manor Healthcare.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK-based VC and infrastructure investor hopes to eventually raise £200m for a London-focused waste and recycling fund that is supported by London Mayor Boris Johnson.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Paris-based firm has sold its 50% stake in dairy products group Yoplait, brining the amount of capital returned to investors since 1 January to roughly €1.2bn.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Sonja Terraneo, formerly global head of industrials for Permira, will further CD&R’s reach into the industrials sector and German-speaking countries as it readies for an increase in European deal activity.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
With Japan still reeling from the largest earthquake in its history, private equity business in the country has been put on pause.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
The Southern European-focused mid-market firm will continue its expansion abroad with its first-ever North American office.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
