Private Equity
The London-based fund of funds manager has added to its fund selection teams in London and Boston.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK mid-market firm has acquired the manufacturer of TV celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott's branded food products installing a new management team to grow the business.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Gerrit Zalm, the Dutch political heavyweight, signs up to advise Permira as the buyout firm acknowledges it will have to engage with a wider range of people than just its investors and management teams in today's political climate.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The US investment bank is continuing to strengthen its private equity team, now called Morgan Stanley Private Equity, as it raises a $6 billion debut fund just three years after spinning out its in-house PE group.
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
The battered UK trade organisation says it needs “sharper focus” but intends to remain a single organisation representing VCs, mid-market groups and big LBO funds under one roof.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The former European arm of Benchmark Capital has backed an experienced team to launch a mobile betting service in the UK.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Octopus Private Equity and Foresight Group, the small and medium enterprise investors, have sold their controlling stakes in outsourcing company Covion Holdings with an 84 percent internal rate of return over two and a half years.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
TPG-affiliate ACON Investments has completed its second exit from a Latin American supermarket chain, with the sale of GBarbosa to strategic buyer Cencosud.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK mid-market firm has invested in the platform gas business it bought in June, taking total financing to more than £50m with the acqusition of Global Gas Supplies.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
