Private Equity
Alberto Morano, a private equity lawyer in Italy for the past 15 years, is to head up SJ Berwin’s new Italian offices.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Southern European buyout firm has taken a majority stake in Spain’s INAER.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Bank of Scotland Corporate has taken a minority stake in the UK construction, development and property maintenance company.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
As Benchmark Europe completes the acquisition of a 50 percent stake in a TV network that shows North American sports in Europe, reports are emerging of private equity interest in UK football TV rights.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Dubai-based Istithmar reportedly beat off competition from Carlyle, Exponent and 3i to purchase the shipping services firm for $285 million.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Investment in “clean technology” companies in the UK is growing at 30 percent year on year. With VCs accounting for half of the £1 billion invested in the last five years, Colm Gilmore explores the attractions of this growing sector.
3 min read · 30 December 2012
Sandra Horbach, former general partner at Forstmann Little, will join The Carlyle Group’s New York office this September to head the firm’s consumer/retail sector group.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The poor marketing of some VCTs shouldn’t be allowed to tarnish the image of a valuable source of enterprise capital, says SJ Berwin’s Simon Witney.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
ISIS Equity Partners is spinning out of F&C Asset Management to become a management-owned UK mid-market private equity firm.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Chris Hyams has joined the private equity transaction services group at Deloitte from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Paris office.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
