Private Equity
Citigroup Venture Capital, CVC Asia Pacific and Francisco Partners have purchased a non-memory division of South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor in a carve-out valued at $828m.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The European private equity firm has acquired a 46 percent stake in a Dutch mail-order pharmacy company from 3i and other shareholders.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Fox Paine & Company, the San Francisco-based private equity firm, has announced an exclusive agreement to acquire VCST Industrial Products, a Belgian auto components business.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
In its fourth investment of the year, the French arm of ABN AMRO Capital has acquired a controlling stake in restaurant chain Score Groupe in a €100 million MBO.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The all-share private equity deal has arrived in Italy with the sale of Cantieri Itama, the speedboat maker owned by Opera, the luxury goods investor, to Permira-backed Ferretti Group.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
For investors looking for exposure to emerging markets, investing in private rather than public markets is often the better option, argues Actis’ Jonathan Bond.
5 min read · 30 December 2012
KKR has sold half of the 89 percent shareholding in Dutch retailer Royal Vendex that it acquired in July in a €1.5 billion PTP.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Duke Street Capital Debt Management, the leveraged loan specialist, has changed its name to Babson Capital Europe following its acquisition by Babson Capital Management in May.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Swiss private equity firm has agreed to acquire a Swiss chemical company in an CHF81 million management buy out.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Innova Capital, the Warsaw-based private equity firm focused on Central Europe, has recruited Andrzej Bartos as a managing director.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
