Western Europe

Macquarie and BC Partners join for Techem(2)

Macquarie Bank has teamed up with rival BC Partners to takeover Techem in Germany’s first ‘hostile’ public-to-private.

Buyout firms in $50bn fundraising bonanza(2)

Blackstone, KKR and Terra Firma are set to raise fund vehicles totalling nearly $50 billion in the coming weeks.

Barclays Private Equity sells retailer for £51.5m(2)

Barclays Private Equity has sold a women’s wear retailer for £51.5m to a consortium led by Kaupthing Principal Investments, which is bringing in a “high profile chief executive officer” to head the business in the coming months.

Carlyle backs management buyout of advertising company(2)

The Mill, a UK advertising visual effects company, has been bought by The Carlyle Group and the management team for an undisclosed sum, thought to be more than £50m.

ACON buys pizza restaurant chain

The Washington, DC-based firm joins a wave of several other firms investing in the restaurant industry with the purchase of Peter Piper, a pizza chain popular with Hispanics consumers.

TowerBrook ties up Jimmy Choo deal(2)

TowerBrook Capital Partners has bought iconic UK shoemaker Jimmy Choo in a £185 million deal, generating a substantial return for previous owners Lion Capital in just over two years.

Enterprise rejects 3i bid(2)

3i suffers another setback as £462m Enterprise buyout deal is rejected.

Lloyds TSB promotes director to chair buyout arm(2)

Lloyds Development Capital has found a replacement for Michael Joseph, who stood down as chairman of the private equity company earlier this year.

Litorina completes two deals in a week(2)

Nordic private equity firm Litorina Kapital has bought a Swedish waste management company, in its second deal this week.

AXA Private Equity backs web TV(2)

AXA Private Equity has invested in Brainsonic, a European producer of media content and corporate WebTV portals, to help drive growth.