Private Equity
Internet traffic is growing rapidly, and so is the need to store data in safe, reliable places. A UK-based fund manager is pursuing an investment strategy based on the trend. Philip Borel reports
5 min read · 05 January 2013
The deal will dramatically increase the Connecticut-based financial software and services provider’s private equity client base.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
London-based smaller companies investor Acuity looks to raise £100m for a vehicle predicated on local authorities having to meet government targets on organic waste recycling.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
NBGI Private Equity has purchased the food supplier for £13m, about half of which comprised senior debt.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Apollo- and BC-backed Unitymedia, the cable platform that owns the rights to the German football league, has been sold to a US player for €3.5bn.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Sweden is introducing changes to a proposed EU directive that, if passed, would curb compensation for hedge fund and private equity managers by up to 60 percent in some cases.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Representatives from the £13 billion Wellcome Trust and the UK Financial Services Authority testified before the UK House of Lords Tuesday about the potentially painful impacts from EU fund manager regulations, including loss of access to funds and marketing restrictions. House members said they would address such concerns in upcoming meetings with the European Commission.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Keynote: The Canadia Pension Plan Investment Board has long practiced an elevated form of pension management. Now it has brought its do-it-ourselves approach to infrastructure investment. David Snow went to Toronto to meet Mark Wiseman and Graeme Bevans, respectively the firm’s head of all private investments and head of infrastructure.
10 min read · 05 January 2013
More than 100 participants from the private equity industry spent Friday digging, building and painting as part of a Private Equity Foundation volunteer day in London’s East End.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
GI Partners’ European managing director Mark Tagliaferri on the firm’s $1.9bn fundraise and strategy
2 min read · 05 January 2013
