Private Equity
The Unilever-backed fund has made four times its money on its investment in fast-growing Dorset Cereals where employee numbers have doubled.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Simon Walker, the BVCA chief executive, said the industry body’s research counteracts common perceptions that private equity pursues “quick flips” and does not invest in companies.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Andy Thomson looks at why European debt providers may increasingly have to accept losing influence over private equity's portfolio companies.
10 min read · 04 January 2013
The alternative energy sector is proving increasingly attractive as oil prices soar.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Terra Firma’s turnaround of the music company has run into further difficulties in the same month US bank Citi reportedly failed to sell on £2.4bn of EMI loans.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
As the co-founder and general partner of Index Ventures, Neil Rimer has backed some of the biggest success stories in the history of the European venture capital market. And despite some lingering post-dotcom scepticism, he believes there are plenty more where these came from. Rimer, who lives in Geneva, met with James Taylor on a recent trip to London.
10 min read · 04 January 2013
The Canadian pension has confirmed it’s looking to increase its infrastructure assets with the addition of a second European airport to its portfolio.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The global bank has cut half the members of its 27-strong team. Deal fees from private equity have collapsed on the back of the credit crunch, as banks have pulled back from larger buyout deals.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Ronan Cunningham will bolster the Connecticut-based firm's investor relations team beginning later this summer.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The European-based private equity firm will provide €200,000 per year to further private equity education and research.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
