Private Equity

Western Europe

CDC backs Multiples with $30m

The commitment takes the maiden fund of Renuka Ramnath's Multiples Alternate Asset Management one step closer to its $450m target.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Advent and Bain purchase £2bn of RBS assets

Private equity firms Advent International and Bain Capital have acquired RBS’s card payment processing business for more than £2bn.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Oakley hires Endless’ Del Huse

The deal-maker has left Endless for another private equity firm after two years helming its London operations.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Eurazeo and Carlyle hold B&B talks

The listed European firm is in exclusive negotiations to sell Carlyle the €485m French budget hotel chain B&B.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Palamon processes $317m partial exit

The sale of Retail Decision's Australian payment processing division has returned 'substantially all' of the initial investment made by Palamon, Alpinvest and Morgan Stanley.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

French sovereign fund teams with Apollo

A French sovereign fund, formed by Nicholas Sarkozy, is teaming with Apollo to make a joint offer for French-based Alcan Engineered Products.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Think tank takes private equity to task

The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation - in contrast to recent studies by academics - alleges the industry has reported deceivingly high returns because it failed to account for leverage.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Arlon Capital raises $300m for new fund

The New York-based firm’s second fund is tagerting an undisclosed amount.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Private equity and the FT

When a prominent financial newspaper backs an attack on the industry, it shows there is a long way to go for private equity to be recognised as a legitimate and worthwhile asset class by some.

3 min read · 05 January 2013

Baird's Europe team unlocks 2.7x return

The UK middle market investor's success with lock maker Paddock hinged in part on Baird's global reach, said director James Benfield.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

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