Private Equity
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
KPMG shows how FTSE 350 companies could comfortably take more debt on their balance sheets and see off competition from buyout firms
3 min read · 03 January 2013
CVC Capital Partners has promoted Marc Boughton, head of its Cordatus debt management division, to managing partner, and also promoted six other dealmakers in its European offices.
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
Inflexion Private Equity has completed its second transaction in a month with a £12 million buyout of a software company, a week after it sold its £19.1 million venture capital trust.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Investors are eager to pile into UK mid-market firm Graphite Capital although the level of interest anticipated will easily outstrip supply and leave some disappointed.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
A consortium of UK fund managers have formed a new industry body with the aim of educating retail and small institutional investors on the workings and merits of private equity investment trusts (PEITs).
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Gordon Brothers affiliate will use the $320m fund to invest in the retail and consumer products sectors.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
International Paper has also agreed to sell a separate unit to Australian forest products company Carter Holt Harvey, bringing the total value of the company’s many spinouts to approximately $11bn.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Change Capital Partners has become the controlling shareholder in a company formed from the merger of four Spanish electrical goods retailers in its second deal in a week, and may raise its second fund in 2007.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
