Private Equity
Bridgepoint exits the Marathon Group, the French TV production company, through a sale to trade buyer De Agostini. It had built up the company through a buy and build strategy over the last nine years.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Altamar Private Equity, a fund of funds manager with exclusively Spanish investors, has closed the country’s largest fund yet on $575m, underlining investor appetite.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The London-based fund of funds manager has added to its fund selection teams in London and Boston.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Five years after spinning off its private equity business, Morgan Stanley has made another senior appointment as it prepares to launch a $6 billion global buyout fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
UK buyout firm Electra Partners has agreed a £52 million take-private bid for listed fund manager Premier Asset Management, and appointed an outside non-executive director to its board.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The European mid-market firm Bridgepoint is beginning discussions with investors for its fourth fund, targeting a 45 percent increase on its 2005 fund Bridgepoint Europe III.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Mark Anson, one of the biggest names in alternative investment, has unexpectedly quit as chief executive of Hermes, the manager of BT’s pension fund assets, just 18 months after taking the job.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Lloyds Development Capital has bought Direct Group, a UK provider of insurance services, from Barclays Private Equity.
1 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
Buyout firm NBGI Private Equity has held a first close on its second fund, as it looks to repeat the success it has enjoyed with the fund’s predecessor.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
