Private Equity
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
Three Delta has withdrawn its bid for Sainsbury’s citing the problems in the credit markets and an equity increase demanded by the UK supermarket’s pension trustees.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Financial sponsors’ dealmaking fell dramatically last month as the problems in the debt markets dramatically curtailed the buyout boom. Buyout firms represented only 7 percent of overall mergers and acquisitions volume in August.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Tim Bunting, the former Goldman Sachs banker, has taken on a full-time role with venture firm Balderton, after working with it in its previous incarnation as Benchmark Capital Europe.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Troubled Northern Rock buys time with Olivant, an investment firm and one of two live bids for the bank, by offering access to the three financing banks working with rival bidder Virgin.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firm that made its name turning around the Japanese bank has returned to bail out a beleaguered Shinsei with the largest-ever private equity deal in the Japanese banking sector.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Business services specialist Lyceum Capital has sold health and safety company National Britannia Group after two and a half years to asset manager Connaught. Jeremy Hand, managing partner, said there was considerable interest.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Antonio Bonchristiano, co-head of Brazil's GP Investments, shares his thoughts on the next 12 months after four years of stable growth in the region.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
In the latest stage of his very busy retirement, Tom Hicks has made a formal return to private equity with the launch of Dallas-based Hicks Equity Partners and the hiring of three managing directors for the firm.
2 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
