Private Equity
The emerging markets specialist has attracted $253m in commitments and expects to garner a further $100m in the next two months. The final close is scheduled for the third quarter.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Apax Partners is downgrading its resources in Sweden as part of its efforts to ‘rebalance’ its existing resources.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
As loans taken out during the market’s boom cycle come due, the UK buyout market faces a challenge as ‘any company that fails to approach its lender from a position of strength may leave with a bloody nose’, according to law firm Trowers & Hamlins.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Rachel Tan, former global head of business development for real estate and private equity at French bank Société Générale, is helping expand the capital raising business at Australia’s Macquarie Group.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The listed private equity firm is one of five companies to be removed from the UK Financial Times Share Index 100 due to insufficient market caps.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel will pay the buyout firm less than half the maximum possible damages for withdrawing from the $3.53bn acquisition of John Maneely, a deal struck last August.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Public money for private equity is good news for start-ups in a recession, writes Rolf Dienst.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK’s secretary of state for business, Peter Mandelson, last night urged BVCA members to help drive UK economic growth by backing entrepreneurial start-ups and growing SMEs ‘into world beaters’. He also addressed the industry’s efforts to battle negative public perception, noting it had surpassed its ‘pain threshold’.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Australian infrastructure specialist believes that it will be in a negative net asset position as of 31 December 2008 as a result of impairment charges, which will come from non-core assets being marked-to-market prior to being sold.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Alistair Mills' appointment as a director in HIG Europe's London office brings to 25 the firm's investment team headcount.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
