Private Equity

Western Europe

Debut fund races to €300m close

AnaCap Financial Partners, a new pan-European private equity firm focusing on the financial services sector, has raised an oversubscribed €300m vehicle.

2 min read · 31 December 2012

Sigefi PE closes midcap fund on €124m

Paris-based investor Sigefi Private Equity has raised €124m for a new fund focused predominantly on the French SME market.

1 min read · 31 December 2012

Blackstone to acquire 4.5% of Deutsche Telekom

The New York-based LBO giant is to pay €2.68bn to buy a minority stake in Germany’s largest telecoms group.

1 min read · 31 December 2012

EBRD to commit €20m to GED Capital fund

Spanish-based private equity firm GED Capital Development will receive up to €20m from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for its second vehicle.

1 min read · 31 December 2012

Lehman appoints European PE head

Vittorio Pignatti Morano, Lehman’s former co-head of European M&A, has been appointed to head up the global investment bank’s European private equity activities.

2 min read · 31 December 2012

The changing relationship of warrantless mezzanine

Mike Anderson of Intermediate Capital Group looks at hidden dangers lurking in the capital structure of leveraged buyouts.

4 min read · 31 December 2012

GTCR wraps up ADP deal

Chicago’s GTCR Golder Rauner completed its $975 million buyout of Automatic Data Processing’s Claims Services Group.

1 min read · 31 December 2012

PPM Capital exits industrial parts business

Investcorp has made its second acquisition of a French auto parts distributor in the last month with the purchase of Orefi from PPM Capital for an undisclosed sum.

2 min read · 31 December 2012

Bain finalises Burlington deal

Bain Capital has completed its buyout of clothing retailer Burlington Coat Factory, paying $2.1 billion for the property.

1 min read · 31 December 2012

Liquid in largest real estate secondary deal ever

The San Francisco-based real estate secondary firm has acquired a UK portfolio of assets for $775m, believed to be the largest secondary transaction to date in the private equity real estate sector.

2 min read · 31 December 2012

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