Private Equity
Peakadilly, a Belgian biotechnology company developing biomolecular diagnostics technologies, has raised €14.5m from venture capital firms including GIMV and Life Science Partners.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Cinven, a European buyout group, has made an unsolicited offer to the owner of pizza chains Pizza Express and ASK to take it private in a £559m deal, less than a year after floating.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Private equity firms Permira and General Atlantic Partners are still in the running for Misys, but the software and systems group says that it has yet to receive an offer it can recommend to shareholders.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Apax Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, two buyout firms, have quashed the possibility of an offer for Signet Group, a jewellery retailer with stores in the UK and US.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Two investee companies of London Asia, a China-focused investment and merchant bank, will begin trading on UK’s PLUS Markets, a trading platform for shares of small to mid-cap companies.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The London-based real estate firm has appointed a former Lehman Brothers’ director to spearhead investment in Italy.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
US turnaround specialist has bought two automotive suppliers – one German, the other Japanese – for $305 million as US billionaire Wilbur Ross continues to extend his global exposure in the sector.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a US private equity firm, has appointed Marco Herbst as a senior principal in its London office.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
David Kelting, the joint head of Barclays Capital’s sponsor origination team, has been promoted head of European leveraged finance, replacing Chris Coles, who is going on sabbatical.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Caste Harlan and its Australian affiliate CHAMP have merged several barley malting companies to form a new global company with $400 million in revenues.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
