Private Equity
UK buyout firm Candover is considering whether to step up negotiations with trade buyer Marel in an attempt to salvage its bid for Dutch industrial group Stork, after the Icelandic group built up its stake to 19.6 percent.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US buyout firm Bain Capital has won the race to buy Brake Bros, a UK food distribution business, from Clayton Dubilier & Rice, in a deal thought to be worth about £1.3 billion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The London Stock Exchange is looking to attract alternative asset managers hoping to raise funds on the public markets, with the launch of a new market specifically designed for alternative investment fund listings.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Nordic buyout firm EQT Partners is to float Tognum, an engineering company it bought in March last year, on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It will be the largest IPO in Germany in seven years.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK buyout firm Candover is considering whether to step up negotiations with trade buyer Marel in an attempt to salvage its bid for Dutch industrial group Stork, after the Icelandic group built up its stake to 19.6 percent.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
A child of Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder, the post war economic miracle, has finally grown up as Deutsche Bank sells the last of its founding stake in Deutsche Beteiligungs, 42 years after founding the private equity company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Many FTSE 100 chief executives are considering a move into private equity, either as operating partners, advisers or individual investors, despite misgivings about the industry’s short-termism and excessive leverage.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
3i has recruited Andrzej Szostak from Rothschild Group to lead its deal activity in Poland, as it continues to commit more resource to buyouts in central and eastern Europe.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
A child of Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder, the post war economic miracle, has finally grown up as Deutsche Bank sells the last of its founding stake in Deutsche Beteiligungs, 42 years after founding the private equity company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Carlyle Group is preparing a $22 billion takeover bid for UK cable TV and mobile phone business Virgin Media, as it looks to replicate the success of its previous European investments in the sector.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
