Private Equity
The European investment banking group has parted company with the last of its direct investment teams, having earlier spun out its mid-market and venture units.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
As credit processes from UK banks take longer to complete, firms like Dunedin and Gresham are taking debt finance into their own hands.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
UBS has reportedly written off more than A$500m of Stella Group’s debt in return for a 40% stake in the travel and hospitality company.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The latest deal from Carlyle's European tech team is for Groupe Marle, a French provider of specialist services to the healthcare industry.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Should a deal with CVC materialise, it would mark the second set of assets one of the world’s biggest brewing companies has recently sold to private equity firms.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The FIG-focused firm is deploying a recently closed €575m fund, having in May become the first private equity firm to buy a UK bank.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
An exclusive gathering in California hosted by Stanford University sheds light on what pensions are seeking from infrastructure managers – and what the pensions might do if they don’t get what they want, writes Cezary Podkul.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The joint venture between Baltimore-based Municipal Mortgage & Equity and a Dublin-based syndicate of private investors is poised to close on its first South Africa housing fund. It is already eying a bigger second vehicle to invest on a pan-African basis.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
A consortium of heavyweight investors including Allianz, RREEF and Goldman Sachs, is reportedly the sole remaining bidder in the auction to acquire the Swedish energy company’s German transmission grid.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The forklift company’s financial sponsors will provide PIK notes while its lenders consider a proposal to amend its debt covenants.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
