Private Equity
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
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
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
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
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
Mike Anderson of Intermediate Capital Group looks at hidden dangers lurking in the capital structure of leveraged buyouts.
4 min read · 31 December 2012
Chicago’s GTCR Golder Rauner completed its $975 million buyout of Automatic Data Processing’s Claims Services Group.
1 min read · 31 December 2012
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 Capital has completed its buyout of clothing retailer Burlington Coat Factory, paying $2.1 billion for the property.
1 min read · 31 December 2012
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