Private Equity
San Francisco-based Hellman & Friedman has also announced the opening of a London office led by managing director Patrick Healy.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Kent-based VCF Partners has kick-started consolidation in the UK venture capital trust (VCT) industry with the agreed acquisition of Advent Fund Managers, the VCT arm of Advent Venture Partners.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The lower-mid market UK private equity firm has invested £6m in a specialist provider of care and residential services, its first deal since becoming independent.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Lloyds Development Capital has sold its 56 percent shareholding in British clothing retail chain Ethel Austin to ABN Amro Capital.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Permira’s £940 million bid for UK high street retailer WH Smith has been suspended following reports that the vendor has demanded at least £100 million from the bidder to cover a black hole in its pension scheme.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The European mid-market private equity firm has backed the £22.4m buyout of Castlecare Group, a care provider for young people with serious behavioural problems.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The Carlyle Group, along with UK defence, aerospace and electronics group Meggitt, has agreed to purchase Dunlop Standard Aerospace from Doughty Hanson.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Julian Mash, Chief Executive of Vision Capital, provides a case study in how investors can achieve liquidity in the private equity asset class via a secondary direct portfolio transaction, or 'synthetic secondary'.
7 min read · 30 December 2012
In its fourth and final acquisition from its 2003 fund, Legal & General Ventures has acquired UK gym operator Total Fitness for a reported £80m.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Alchemy Partners, the London-based private equity firm, has added to its spate of recent exits with the £215 million sale of Paramount Hotels to Dawnay Shore Hotels.
3 min read · 30 December 2012
