Private Equity
Mid-market firm Baird Capital Partners Europe has invested £13 million in UK recruitment consultancy Aston Carter.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
PAI Partners has abandoned its joint bid with CVC Capital Partners for Spanish cigarette company Altadis. An insider said the split had been amicable in the face of opposition from the French and Spanish governments.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
ABN AMRO Capital, the private equity business of Dutch bank ABN AMRO, has bought a 74.6 percent stake in Dunlop Aircraft Tyres for about £40 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co has decided to follow CVC Asia Pacific and quit the consortium bidding for Coles Group after two weeks of due diligence on the Australian retail giant. Coles shares have consequently fallen below the A$17.00 mark for the first time since April.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
3i has invested €37 million ($50.2 million) in Luxembourg business outsourcing company, KNEIP, marking a prolific 6 month period with €250 million invested in the region.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Aberdeen Asset Management Growth Capital is using its local expertise to purchase a North Sea oil industry supplies company for approximately £15 million. Separately it is also backing a funeral services company.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Emerging private equity market investor Actis has made over $1 billion from the sale of power assets held by Globeleq, a subsidiary of UK investment group CDC, through two transactions.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
With the closure of its second energy fund on $3.1 billion, LS Power’s 5-year old private equity arm has become one of the world’s 50 largest private equity firms.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
UK buyout firm Charterhouse Capital Partners has agreed a secondary buyout of TSL Education, the educational publishing business that was Exponent Private Equity’s first acquisition as an independent entity.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
3i’s annual results revealed another strong year, with record realisations and investment up 42 percent. The group will return £800 million to shareholders.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
