Private Equity
Capman has sold service management company Synerco to trade buyer Addici Holding.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Buyout house Hellman & Friedman is reportedly placed to make £200 million as part of a £520 million refinancing of asset management firm Gartmore less than a year after it backed a management buyout of the company.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
ABN AMRO Capital, the private equity affiliate of Dutch bank ABN AMRO, has bought a majority stake in UK office supplies distributor OyezStraker Group from Hermes Private Equity for £41.2 million.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
In the first three months of 2007, European private equity activity topped €50 billion for the second successive quarter, according to a new report, with the mid-market performing particularly well.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
US media and communications specialist Veronis Suhler Stevenson is buying a minority stake in Zed, a leading Spanish mobile content provider valued at about €400 million. It is the firm’s first investment in the country.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Blackstone Group will this week make its third attempt to float Cineworld, a UK cinema group expected to be valued at about £240 million. The buyout firm has already cancelled two previous public offerings because of adverse market conditions.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
UK buyout firm TowerBrook Capital has recruited a new chief executive to run luxury goods retailer Jimmy Choo, allowing former head Robert Bensoussan to explore further acquisitions in the sector alongside the buyout firm.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Apax France, the French affiliate of Apax Partners, has sold Parkeon to Barclays Private Equity after making the business profitable and expanding into the US.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has struck a knockout blow in the battle for UK health and beauty chain Alliance Boots this morning, after sweetening its bid to £11 billion and increasing the stake it controls to about 25 percent.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
BISYS, a provider of outsourcing solutions for the investment and insurance industries, is set to be acquired by Citi for $1.5 billion; it will then sell two BISYS divisions to JC Flowers.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
