Private Equity
Less than a month after the launch of Dubai-based Abraaj Capital’s Pakistan-focused buyout fund, the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly proposing a 10-year tax exemption for private equity funds.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The Scottish bank’s integrated finance arm has taken a minority stake in Vue Entertainment, the cinema group, providing both debt and equity in its biggest deal yet
2 min read · 03 January 2013
US-based real estate fund manager Starwood Capital has sold the French champagne interests that it acquired in its €1.2bn purchase of Groupe Taittinger last July.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The storm over foreign private equity investment in Korea claims another scalp as tension is reported to be rising between the government and the tax service.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Social networking sites have become popular lately with teens, housewives and VCs too. Benchmark Capital’s Barry Maloney tells Robert Venes why his firm has put its money into three such businesses.
4 min read · 03 January 2013
Southern Cross Healthcare Group, a Blackstone portfolio company, has relaunched its plans to float on the London Stock Exchange following postponement late last month.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
As countries across Europe prepare to shut down their analogue TV signals, opportunity may be knocking for companies that can provide pay-TV on the new digital signals.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
StarParks, a European theme park operator owned by London-based growth investor Palamon Capital Partners, has sold six of its leisure parks but will retain its name, management team and a remaining facility in Germany
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Netherlands-headquartered private equity firm Gilde and ABN AMRO Capital have sold their interests in Hebu, a Dutch hydraulic systems company, to Halder, a subsidiary of listed Belgian investor GIMV.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The European venture arm of IT media group IDG has become independent of its parent with backing from Partners Group and Access Capital Partners. The firm has been renamed Acacia Capital Partners.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
