Private Equity
Chicago-based GTCR Golder Rauner is the latest to jump on the scrapbooking bandwagon. The firm’s investment in EK Success is just one of many deals in the space in the past couple of years.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Apax has emerged as the winner of the Tommy Hilfiger auction, inking a deal to buy the clothing designer for $1.6 billion.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Providence Equity Partners has reportedly completed its third European telecoms deal in a fortnight, buying its co-owners’ stakes in the German cable TV operator.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The UK buyout group has reportedly seen off competition from three other European private equity firms to claim the German medical products business.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
A recent ruling from the UK Takeover Panel suggests that private equity firms will find it hard to abort a public-to-private on the basis of a ‘material adverse change.’
3 min read · 30 December 2012
The new appointment brings the private equity division of Aberdeen Asset Managers Private Equity to six.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
GSC Partners and Tishman Speyer have launched a Chinese real estate joint venture, marking GSC’s first move into real estate.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The US-based private equity firm has made its third purchase in Germany with the acquisition of packaging company Nordenia.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The turnaround advisory firm has strengthened its London team with the appointment of a new managing director.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The private equity arm of Barclays Bank has paid £80 million to buy UK care home provider Robinia from Bridgepoint.
2 min read · 30 December 2012