Private Equity
US buyout firm The Carlyle Group has expanded its financial services team with a string of high profile appointments, after closing a real estate and a European fund last week.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
L’Oréal veteran Thierry Paternot is joining Duke Street Capital as its eleventh operating partner as the firm deploys its latest fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Brazilian private equity firm will invest $136 million in Laboratório Americano de Farmacoterapia, a Brazilian pharmaceutical company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The industry is braced for a slow down as buyouts hit a European high in the first half of 2007. The second half looks more restrained after the banking liquidity crisis of the summer. Continental European deals were among the largest, said Tom Lamb, co-head Barclays Private Equity.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
PPM Capital’s spinout from Prudential will take place next quarter, after having been delayed for a year beyond market expectations.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Taking its ownership in the French football team to 62.5 percent is a sign of its long term ambition for the club, says the Los Angeles-based firm.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
UK leisure group Whitbread has bought Graphite Capital's Golden Tulip hotel franchise for £44 million, tripling the mid-market firm's return. The business has nine hotels under development.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
European buyout firm Advent International has bought domestic goods insurer Domestic & General in one of the first public to private deals since problems in the debt markets began.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Two of the US' largest investors in private equity have reportedly warned that should legislators increase the tax burden on general partners, they will not foot the bill.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
SVB Capital has hired John Dominguez of Hill Capital Management and Vincent Williams of Northern Trust Global Investments to expand its private equity programme.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
