Private Equity
3i will buy VNU Business Media Europe from VNU, an information and media company, for €320 million, bringing the number of media businesses in the private equity company’s portfolio to eight.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
CVC’s latest fund can go hostile, but will more likely be used to apply pressure to a recalcitrant board.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Macquarie Bank has teamed up with rival BC Partners to takeover Techem in Germany’s first ‘hostile’ public-to-private.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Phoenix Equity Partners has bought a media monitoring business from 3i for £42 million in its eleventh investment this year.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The European private equity fund of funds specialist is opening an office in Munich with two partners, co-founders of Stratin Capital Advisors.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
AXA Private Equity has invested in Brainsonic, a European producer of media content and corporate WebTV portals, to help drive growth.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Philip Borel, managing editor of Private Equity International, and Nicholas Lockley, editor of PrivateEquityOnline, won two awards at the British Venture Capital Association’s annual journalism awards.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Alchemy Partners has made a return of 3.6 times its original investment in Footman James, a classic car insurer, which has just provided cover for Scooby Doo’s Mystery Machine.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Leading advisers to private equity are beginning to come out in support of the industry, following a wave of recent criticism.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Jonny Maxwell, one of the industry’s most high-profile executives, has walked away from the fund of funds business he built over almost two decades after failing to agree a buyout with his employer.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
