Private Equity
The Sustainable Technologies Fund went to market in February 2007 and has already invested in Swebo Bioenergy and Suncore.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Magnesita, a company backed by Brazilian private equity firms GP Investments and Gavea, will buy Rhone Capital's LWB Refractories in a deal including €277m in equity.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Aberdeen Asset Management’s senior executives, Andy Glennon, Francesco Santinon and Colin Stirling, have led a management buyout from its London-listed parent. Former Bridgepoint investor relations head, Graham Dewhirst, will join the lower mid-market team as chairman.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Paris-based firm, which counts among its LPs some of the first Moroccan-based private equity investors, raised a €50m fund in March.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The team formerly known as ABN AMRO Capital has led Baarmsa Wine Group through its first add-on acquisition. The wine distribution company has purchased Armit, a fine-wine distributor based in London, as it brings its buy-and-build strategy to the UK.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
As part of a frantic weekend on Wall Street, Bank of America has agreed to acquire Merrill Lynch. A spokesman said it is ‘too early’ to tell whether the deal will include the investment bank’s private equity portfolio, or if it will spin out as an independent firm, as did Bear Stearns Merchant Banking.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Miami-based firm, which has sponsored 145 acquisitions and recapitalisations since its founding in 1981, has already invested 20 percent of the fund’s capital.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The European Parliament’s proposal to regulate private equity seems unlikely to change things much at all, writes Toby Mitchenall.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Talks to sell a stake in the bank’s investment management division, including a $30bn private equity portfolio, will continue, despite its march toward insolvency.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Unprepared to up their offer of 450 pence per share, Providence, Carlyle and Blackstone have walked away from the deal for London-based publisher Informa.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
