Private Equity
The new version of the UK Takeover Code could ease the path for private equity firms engaging in take privates in the UK market.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Corsair Capital, a financial services private equity specialist, is to be spun out of JP Morgan and is planning on opening a London office.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Armed with its new €5.8bn buyout fund, pan-European LBO house BC Partners has hired Nikos Stathopoulos from Apax and Giampiero Mazza from Englefield.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The £552m buyout of Partnerships in Care puts Cinven back in control of the company it last owned in 2000 as part of the General Healthcare Group.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Denmark’s largest limited partner has confirmed a sizeable commitment to Apollo Management’s new LBO fund, a vehicle looking to raise $10bn.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Tim Farazmand, who formerly worked with UK private equity groups Catalyst, RBPE and 3i, joins the UK mid-market firm as investment director.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Private equity placement agent Monument Group has established a transatlantic presence, augmenting its Boston-headquartered operations with a new office in London to be headed by co-founder John McLaren.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
ISIS Equity Partners, the UK lower mid-market firm, has announced three new hires in its London and Birmingham offices.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
New York-based Diamond Castle Holdings has agreed to acquire the 49 percent stake of wind energy generator Catamount Resources that it doesn’t already own. The firm had bought a 51 percent stake in Catamount last month.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Bain Capital has wrapped up its acquisition of FCI, the former connectors business of Areva. The acquisition has been valued at €1.067 billion, and required certain “social contracts” from Bain.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
