Private Equity
Dutch bank ABN AMRO’s infrastructure fund has bought ESP Gas Pipeline Group ahead of the fund’s second close later this year.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Lawrence Dean has moved from the investment banking division of the NBGI Group to its London-based private equity subsidiary.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
French bank Crédit Agricole is aiming to double its exposure to private equity and new funds targeting renewables and infrastructure, two of the asset’s hottest sectors, are another step towards that goal.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The Strategic Recovery Fund, an SVG Capital vehicle applying private equity techniques to public companies, is fully invested. The firm has now begun marketing for a larger second fund.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Texas Pacific Group president David Bonderman, who made millions turning around Continental Airlines, has expressed interest in buying Alitalia if the Italian government decides to privatise the airline.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Hedge fund Sloane Robinson is forging into private equity with a ₤12m deal to help commercialise intellectual property created at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Oxford University.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
After a difficult seven-year holding period, Industri Kapital has sold Continental Bakeries to NPM Capital of the Netherlands to book a single-digit IRR.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
As VC eyes the huge profit potential of direct navigation sites, domain owners complain that their internet properties are being undervalued.
4 min read · 03 January 2013
The secondary market for private equity real estate is growing on a global scale. Scott Landress comments on the largest private equity real estate transaction to date.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Private equity investors are seeing big opportunities in the shifting demographics of the US, but challenges—and bad memories—remain. By Paul Fruchbom.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
