Private Equity
The £2.6bn listed UK investment trust is quitting its private equity programme five years after its formation.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
In its seventh exit in the last year, growth investor Palamon has sold an online fashion retailer to Spanish strategic buyer Privalia.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Britain still needs convincing that venture capital can produce blockbuster returns. The way to start is to tout the success of entrepreneurs who have made money, writes Julie Meyer.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The French private equity firm is looking to hold a final close on Fund VIII – which has been in the market for the duration of the financial crisis – in June.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Energy-focused buyout firm First Reserve has taken a minority stake in Ansaldo Energia, a power plant division of aerospace and defense conglomerate Finmeccanica.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The $14bn oil and gas endowment has been slowly getting back into private equity investing after a placement agent scandal left its programme in limbo.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The African private equity house has partnered energy trading firm Vitol to purchase most of Shell’s downstream assets in Africa.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The world’s largest asset manager is partnering with NTR, a Dublin-based renewable energy developer, to launch an invesetment group that will target the renewable power sector.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Sterigenics is being acquired by Chicago-based GTCR, which has just closed Fund IX on $3.25bn.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The portfolio returned 26.7% in 2010, beating every other asset class. La Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec also cut C$6.7bn of debt from infrastructure and private equity in 2010.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
