Private Equity
The VCT manager has sold its stake in the UK-based Bold Pub Company to Calco Midlands, a rival operator, generating an internal rate of return of 20 percent.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Qatari investment company Three Delta may be thwarted in its attempts to buy UK supermarket Sainsbury’s by the founding Sainsbury family. The family has reiterated in a statement that its acceptance of any bid is conditional on the Qatari firm providing an adequate pensions settlement.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Carlyle Group has set up a new team to make investments in central and eastern Europe, a region in which the firm has not made any investments to date.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Franklin Templeton Investments’ buyout arm has launched the largest mezzanine fund in central and eastern Europe.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US bank Citi is considering backing a leveraged loan debt vehicle set up by US buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to take advantage of the $300 billion leveraged loan backlog.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Engineering company A-Tec Industries has bought Dőrries Scharmann Technologie, a machine tool company, from German buyout firm Deutsche Beteiligungs. Mysterious investor group the Arabic Finance Circle is simultaneously attempting to buy a substantial stake in A-Tec.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
One of Orlando Management’s founding partners Christian Hollenberg is stepping down after seven years to spend more time with his young family. He plans to launch a new business in 2008.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Exponent Private Equity has teamed up with old ally Clive Kahn, the former boss of Travelex, for the £70 million acquisition of Cardsave, a UK-based firm that supplies credit card terminals to small retailers.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Carlyle Group has set up a new team to make investments in central and eastern Europe, a region in which the firm has not made any investments to date.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK venture capital firm Creative Ventures has made its first investment since it was founded in late 2006.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
