Private Equity
The French listed buyout firm is in pole position to win the auction for Elis, a French textile business, after revealing that it has entered exclusive negotiations to buy the business from rival PAI Partners.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Turnaround specialist Kelso Place has raised nearly £50 million by floating a 25 percent stake in Sepura, a UK radio maker it bought out of administration for £1 five years ago.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
SVG, the London-based fund manager, increased its net asset value per share on the back of several realisations by UK buyout firm Permira in whose funds the majority of its capital is committed.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US bank Morgan Stanley has appointed Graham Keniston-Cooper European private equity head, as the buyout firm veteran returns a year after Lazard pulled the plug on his private equity unit.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK-based private equity group has lost 20-year veteran Jamie Paton, head of its Hong Kong office and the man charged with leading the firm’s investment activity in North Asia.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The European buyout firm has sold Swiss private healthcare group Hirslanden after five years, as another South African hospital group looks abroad for expansion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association has had its second significant departure in two months as Mark Fox, director of communications and public affairs, left to head up the Business Services Association
1 min read · 04 January 2013
FTSE100-listed 3i has invested in two companies, one the acquisition of a Singapore-based oil and gas company Franklin Offshore, the other a venture funding round into Madrid-based internet sales website BuyVIP.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Bear Stearns Merchant Banking will buy international petroleum transporter MC Shipping for $284 million.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK private equity arm of Barclays Capital has closed its third European fund, having raising the entire capital from existing investors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
