Private Equity
The Richcourt Group, the majority-owned hedge fund of funds arm of Hamilton Lane, has hired former World Bank hedge fund manager Francesco Mainolfi as chief investment officer of the firm.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The AIM-listed private equity firm has acquired a 70 percent stake in UK public transport technology company ACIS in a £25m MBO.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Terra Firma Capital Partners is set to sign terms to acquire German property group Viterra for €7 billion in Europe’s largest private equity deal to date.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Private equity investment in the UK reached a record annual total of £9.7bn in 2004, a 52% rise on the £6.4bn recorded the previous year, according to a new study.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Legal & General Ventures has agreed to sell a portfolio of seven companies to secondary investor Vision Capital for an undisclosed sum.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
After successive hurricanes have battered the Southern parts of the US, Stone Point, the team of former Marsh private equity pros, is getting back into the reinsurance business with the acquisition of a Chubb subsidiary.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Shares in the UK high street retailer fell 29 percent at start of trading today following the announcement from the private equity firm.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Global asset manager Franklin Templeton Investment has raised €60m for a European private equity real estate fund of funds from investors including UK and Nordic pensions.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Gulf Emirate Dubai is investing heavily in class B apartments in the US Sunbelt via their private equity vehicle Dubai Investment Group.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The buyout and mezzanine manager has invested €29 million of equity and debt in French sushi company Marco Polo.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
