Private Equity
Following the retirement of Rod Perry, which will take effect from July 2005, Jo Taylor will assume responsibility for the firm’s global venture capital division.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
BancBoston Capital and Indigo Capital have sold Menzies Hotels Group to the European principal finance arm of Nikko Cordial.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The global venture capital firm has announced the purchase of a 50 percent stake in oil service newco RBGltd, and a €3.1m investment in Norwegian water treatment company Epcon Offshore.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Industri Kapital has sold its 60% stake in shipping services company MacGregor Group to Kone Corporation for a return of 2.5 times its original investment.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Simon Guenzl has joined the New York office of the secondary specialist as a principal.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
If the sale of the Bulgarian mobile-phone company to Telekom Austria goes through as agreed, its private equity backers stand to make a gain of €160m less than 18 months after the original investment.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The European buyout investor has agreed to sell Opus Holdings, a UK regional insurance broker, to Willis Group for an undisclosed sum.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
AXA Investment Managers Private Equity has announced the final closing of its latest mid-market secondaries fund on $1bn: well ahead of an original target fund size of $800m.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The London firm has acquired a 60 percent stake in Belgian publisher Bureau van Dijk for an undisclosed sum, its second European acquisition in the last three weeks.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Apparently alarmed by claims made in a 2002 conspiracy-theory book, the acting governor of New Jersey has asked counter-terrorism officials 'take a careful look' at Investcorp, a Bahrain-based private equity firm that is attempting to buy a New Jersey was
3 min read · 30 December 2012
