Private Equity
The London-based turnaround specialist is for the first time trying to attract institutional investors as it looks to capitalise on the best opportunities it has seen 'in the last four years'.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Singapore-based firm has hired Alex Sao-Wei Lee from secondaries specialist Coller Capital.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The listed firm’s financial footing has been bolstered by the £553m sale of Wood Mackenzie, one of several factors reducing its need to sell the business to reported potential buyers like Coller Capital.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Struggling small- to mid-cap European companies in need of convertible debt and structured equity will bet the focus of the Marwyn Alternative Capital Fund, which will be chaired by UK business grandee Nigel Rudd.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity firm has signed up its first external institutional investors for the Gimv-XL Fund: three major Benelux-based financial services groups.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The direct secondaries firm, which has begun fundraising for Cipio Partners Fund VI in the US, recently purchased 10 venture investments from 3i Group.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Two private equity firms have written off a total of around €140m as Setanta, an Irish sports channel known for broadcasting live English Premier League fixtures, has pulled the plug and gone into administration.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
African GPs are looking beyond traditional structures to raise money in today’s market, writes Toby Mitchenall.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Not only has the Russian mid-market private equity firm garnered $50m from the EBRD for its second vehicle, but it has also hired Robert Sasson, former head of the EBRD’s St. Petersburg office, as senior managing partner.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Stephen Green will lead the mid-market firm’s European financial services activities as John Davison ends his six-year tenure to ‘pursue other interests’.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
