Private Equity
Marc Mogull’s newly-launched private equity real estate firm Benson Elliot Capital Management has hired its second partner, Philip Irons, former head of direct property transactions at Schroders.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Warburg Pincus and Cinven, the US and European private equity firms, have won a €2.6bn auction to buy Essent Kabelcom, a Dutch cable operator, following the withdrawal of Liberty Global, a US cable business.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
The second real estate vehicle from the UK-based private equity firm will largely stick with the investment strategy of its predecessor.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
BTS Investment Advisors, a Swiss private equity advisor, has raised $80 million for expansion capital investments in India.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Cleveland, Ohio-based firm’s microcap fund, which is targeting companies with EBITDA of less than $3m, has made four acquisitions in less than a month.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
KKR, Bain Capital and Merrill Lynch will buy HCA, a hospital chain, and take on its $11.7bn of debt, making it the largest leveraged buyout in history.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Auctus Management, a German mid-cap private equity manager, has generated more than €100m and an 18 times money multiple on the €250m sale of Time Partner, a temporary staffing business, to Investcorp.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
CVC Capital Partners has sold Danish building materials retailer DT Group for €1.5bn, three years after acquiring the business in a €540m public-to-private.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
European buyout firm Permira looks to make it third time lucky with McCarthy & Stone, a UK housebuilder, after losing out on UK public-to-private bids for HMV, a music retailer, and DeVere Group, a hotel chain.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
A group of senior private equity professionals has been tasked with educating the EU about current impediments to their industry’s growth. By Robert Venes.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
