Private Equity
UK motorsport veteran has teamed up with a US banker and two Middle Eastern private equity funds to win the $850 million race for Aston Martin.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
KKR has refuted a UK media report that the buyout firm has postponed its planned $1.25 billion IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Texperts, an award-winning UK mobile information start-up, has chosen to take investment from hedge funds rather than venture capital firms as it gears up for expansion, on the grounds that the process required to secure VC funding was too time-consuming.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Italian special situations investor has closed its first institutional buyout fund with third-party capital, €20 million above its original target.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Former Bloomingdale’s head Marvin Traub has launched a designer-focussed private equity firm that recently made its first investment in UK fashion label Matthew Williamson.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The former buyout arm of JP Morgan is in the process of raising a global fund, its first as an independent entity, which reports suggest could target as much as $3.5 billion.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Edmund Truell’s Pension Corporation has postponed its bid for ex-Marconi Telent by a week in response to the appointment of three independent trustees to the company’s pension board by the Pensions Regulator.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Yesterday’s sale of the Bold Pub Company was the latest in a string of successful deals in the leisure sector for Close Ventures, one of the UK’s longest-established venture capital trust managers. James Taylor met managing director Patrick Reeve.
4 min read · 04 January 2013
KKR has refuted a UK media report that the buyout firm has postponed its planned $1.25 billion IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
JP Morgan spin-out CCMP Capital has closed its first global fund, which will focus on buyout and growth equity opportunities.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
