Private Equity
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation has said it generates an annual 9.5 percent in returns from an investment portfolio that includes private equity.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus has bought Wall Street Systems and Trema to build a market leader in treasury and capital market transaction processing.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Terra Firma, the UK private equity firm, will hold on to the waste-to-energy arm of Waste Recycling Group, which analysts say could be worth £650m, following a sale of the waste disposal business to FCC of Spain.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
Robeco Sustainable Private Equity will invest in sustainable energy venture capital and buyout funds in North America, Western Europe and emerging markets.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
UK lower mid-market firms Sovereign Capital and Palamon Capital Partners have had a busy week, with Sovereign completing two deals, while Palamon closed its €670m second fund and invested in a German corporate gift certificate company.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Barclays Capital has made 10 hires to its US leveraged finance team, headed by Rick Van Zijl and Joe McGrath, who joined the firm from Goldman Sachs in February.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Blackstone Group, US manager of the world’s largest buyout fund, is in talks to acquire seven Center Parcs Europe properties.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Carlyle, a US private equity firm, has acquired Wesco Aircraft Hardware Group, a California-based distributor of aerospace hardware.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
A £1.1bn revised bid by a consortium including Bank of Scotland and West Coast Capital’s Tom Hunter for McCarthy & Stone, a UK homes builder, has trumped a recommended offer by Permira and Barclays Capital.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
European Capital, part of the US private equity firm American Capital, has invested €123m in the buyout of Avery Weigh-Tronix and €126m in the buyout of Farrow & Ball, the first two deals for its UK office, which opened last August.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
