Private Equity
Yesterday’s Library House conference in London highlighted the need for VCs to identify the most promising sectors in cleantech investment and not get caught up in the hype. Dave Keating reports.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
Bain Capital and German investor Odewald have sold 2D Group, a German printing group, to Quadriga Capital.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
3i, a listed European private equity group, has partnered with the India Infrastructure Finance Company for future infrastructure deals in the country.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Former Goldman Sachs partner Scott Gieselman joins Texas energy private equity specialist Natural Gas Partners as managing director.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Adconion Media, a German online advertising network, has received a commitment from Wellington Partners, a pan-European venture capital firm, of an undisclosed amount.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
UK buyout firm Duke Street Capital has completed a £120 million refinancing of Accantia Health & Beauty.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The Wall Street bank’s real estate arm is reportedly buying 10 European hotels as it ramps up exposure to the global hospitality sector.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The shareholders of Singaporean engineering company MMI have accepted a take-private bid from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. The S$1.65 per share offer values the company at about $660 million.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The International Monetary Fund’s doom-laden warnings about the potential damage to financial markets of a high-profile private equity deal collapse have only worsened the political storm currently surrounding the industry in Europe.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Private Equity Foundation, the industry’s recently-launched charitable initiative, has hired Shaks Ghosh, the former head of homelessness charity Crisis, to be its first chief executive.
2 min read · 03 January 2013