Private Equity
Icos Capital, a Dutch venture capital firm, has launched a food, energy and waste venture capital fund with a €4m participating loan from the Dutch government.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
ITV, a UK broadcaster, has sold its 45% stake in TV3 for £70m as part of a €265m transaction for the whole of the Irish television channel by Doughty Hanson.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Close Brothers Private Equity, a UK mid-market buyout firm, has made its first direct investment in the pharmaceuticals sector with a $176m management buyout of Rosement Pharmaceuticals, a developer of off-patent oral liquid medicines.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Graham Partners, a Philadelphia private equity firm, announced its recap of truck equipment refurbisher TransAxle, its fifth platform investment from its $465m second fund.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Mobile phone company founder John Caudwell has sold out to private equity netting more for his stake in the business than analysts had predicted for the entire group.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The two firms have invested $430 million in a $500 million joint venture with US Shipping Partners.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The sale of Rovtech, a supplier of remotely operated vehicles to the oil and gas industry, has generated an IRR of 26.5% for 3i, which originally invested in the business in 1996.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Smedvig Capital, a private equity firm providing growth capital and small buyout financing, has appointed Nicola Lando from Mercer Management Consulting.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Lime Rock Partners, a Connecticut private equity firm, today announced the closing of its fourth energy-focused fund on $750m, nearly as much as its three previous funds combined.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Cinven, a European private equity firm, has capped a busy month that has seen it invest in over €8bn of transactions with the purchase of Avio, an Italian aerospace engine maker, from owners The Carlyle Group and Finmeccanica.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
