Private Equity
Allianz Capital Partners has sold UK care homes provider Four Seasons Healthcare to an investment fund of the Qatar Investment Authority, despite interest from 3i and Terra Firma Capital Partners.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Newbridge Andean Partners, a fund managed by ACON Investments and affiliated with Texas Pacific, has agreed to sell its minority stake in Carulla Vivero through a transaction that values the retailer at over $700m including debt.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
Close Growth Capital, a UK small buyout and growth capital private equity firm, has sold Goodridge, an auto parts supplier, to company management.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
A press report suggests the hit TV producer is having meetings with six buyout firms ahead of starting a formal auction.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Goldman Sachs is reportedly back to raise $10 billion for a new private equity fund after closing GS Capital Partners V last year on $8.5 billion.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The European private equity giant has won the auction for the Birds Eye and igloo frozen food brands.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Dunedin Capital Partners has backed a £30m secondary management buyout of Capula, an IT systems integrator acquired by Bridgepoint in September 2000.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
First Reserve, which recently opened offices in Asia, has announced the closing of the largest energy-specific global fund ever raised, at $7.8bn. CEO Bill Macaulay told <em>PEO</em> that investor demand could have made the fund "much larger."
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Miami private equity firm has acquired majority interests in two scrapbooking companies, including Die Cuts with a View, the fastest-growing private company in Utah.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The revision of guidelines for taxation of ratcheted and geared returns received by employees of private-equity backed companies has been welcomed by the British Venture Capital Association.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
