Private Equity
The European private equity firm has launched a €1.4bn agreed takeover bid for Spanish clothing retailer Cortefiel on top of its bid for cable and wireless group Auna.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
German private equity firm Deutsche Beteiligungs has begun fundraising for its fifth vehicle.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The US-based private equity firm is to expand its European activities with new offices in Spain and Portugal in 2006.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Bartlesville, Oklahoma-based venture capital fund of funds firm Knightsbridge Advisors has raised $500 million for its sixth fund, which will invest in venture partnerships and post-venture emerging tech companies.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Private equity funds investing in Europe raised €25.4 billion in 2004, with non-UK funds accounting for nearly half the total, new research says.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The lower midmarket private equity firm has been renamed RJD Partners as it begins the process of spinning out from The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
An adverse tax change and growing nervousness in the banking community could end the current boom in the UK private equity market, says the Centre of Management Buyout Research.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt-based mid-market buyout investor has agreed its third deal in Germany in 2005.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The London-based private equity firm has made its third hire in the last six months.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Latest figures from data provider Dealogic have confirmed the enormous amount of liquidity in the debt markets that was available for private equity deals in 2005.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
