Private Equity
The UK lower mid-market specialist has made its third hire of the year, appointing Richard Swann as investment director.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
GameStop, which operates 5,889 stores in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, will now have 1,077 stores throughout Europe, including in Ireland, Spain, France and Switzerland.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Apax Partners, Saban Capital Group and Mori Arkin have upped their stake in the privatised telecom company. The investor group acquired a 30 percent stake in Bezeq in 2005.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The European private equity firm has backed the management buyout of LEXSI, a French provider of IT security services, for an undisclosed amount.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Tchenguiz family, along with three international development funds are the cornerstone investors in The Evolution One Fund, which has raised 40 percent of its targeted R1bn total.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Buyout volumes for 2008 are down just 4 percent on 2006, says the Centre for Management Buyout Research, with public markets sustaining dealflow.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The chemicals sector is proving fruitful for Close Brothers Private Equity. It has completed its second deal in a month, selling BWA Water Additives to Bahrain-based investment bank United International.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Andrew Hartley, who co-led the UK mid-market private equity firm’s spin out from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, has left after 13 years to seek ‘fresh challenges’.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The global mid-market buyout group has upped its investments in buyout and infrastructure deals, despite a roughly 40 percent fall in the total value of its investments over the past five months. The firm’s realisations also slowed significantly.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Having passed the halfway mark on fundraising for its new Pan-African fund, its largest ever focused on the region, the mid-market investor is hoping to have invested between $80m and $100m by the end of the year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
