Private Equity
The two European buyout groups have taken a partial exit on their investment in Holmes Place, a European fitness chain, selling the UK business to rival Virgin Active.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
US buyout firm KKR is re-writing the record books with Europe’s largest single equity investment to fund the buyout of Philips’s semiconductor unit, underwritten by Europe’s biggest junk bond sale.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Four buyout firms are reported to have reached second round bids for government-owned Dutch publisher Sdu.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Prelude Trust, a UK quoted investment trust, has invested alongside QinetiQ Ventures, The Dow Chemical Company and TTP Ventures in a new financing round for ZBD Displays, which has raised almost £15m since 2001.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Electra Partners Europe has opened an Italian office while rebranding as Cognetas a year after its formal separation from Electra Investment Trust in 2005.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Lehman Brothers Co-Investment Partners, the co-investment fund of US bank Lehman Brothers, has joined The Carlyle Group as a shareholder in Firth Rixson, a metal manufacturing business Carlyle acquired in 2003.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
US and European venture capital firm Fidelity Ventures is looking within its own and portfolio companies’ internal processes as it hunts for vertical software targets. By Robert Venes.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
Start-up private equity firm Merchant Equity Parters is in pole position to snap up the loss-making retail division of MFI Furniture Group.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Vision Capital, a secondary direct firm, has acquired a portfolio including three nuclear consultancy businesses and a rail infrastructure specialist for £76.4m.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Impress Group, a Dutch-based metal can producer created by Doughty Hanson in 1997, has been refinanced for €1bn after several acquisitions in the past six years.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
