Private Equity
An agressive roll out of Euromedic International by Warburg Pincus and its co-investors has trebled the firm's original investment. The company has been sold to Merrill Lynch's private equity group and Ares Life Sciences for some €800m.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The bank’s private equity arm is the lead investor in an agreed equity purchase in Breitenfeld, a niche steel producer in the Austrian region of Styria.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
The European buyout firm has bought a UK pensions annuity business from Phoenix Equity Partner, banking on strong growth rather than leverage to generate a return.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Tuninvest, the Tunis-based private equity firm, has closed its second fund focused on the Maghreb region on €125m.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The global buyout firm is expanding its footprint to mainland China as talks with sovereign wealth funds progress in the background, according to chief executive Martin Halusa.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firms have purchased shares in Weather Investments, whose mobile phone service subsidiaries include Wind Hellas and Wind Telecomunicazioni.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Coller Capital's delisting of DFJ Esprit's publicly-quoted venture fund is yet another measure of its founder Jeremy Coller's enthusiasm for under-valued venture assets.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The chairman of socially-minded investment firm Bridges Ventures yesterday won PEI Media’s inaugural Private Equity Leader Award 2008 for his work building Apax Partners and leading the drive behind social entrepreneurship.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The US bank has chosen the co-head of Morgan Stanley Japan Securities’ investment banking division to head its private equity activities in the country.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Investors have flocked to Waterland's focussed offering of a regional buy-and-build strategy, which has served them well over the last nine years.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
