Private Equity
Princeton, New Jersey-based Rockwood Specialties Group has announced it will acquire four businesses of German chemical company Dynamit Nobel, to create one of the world’s largest specialty chemicals companies.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Texas Pacific is joining CSFB Private Equity on the acquisition of German bathroom-fixture maker Friedrich Grohe AG from UK-based BC Partners.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Michael Ireland, a portfolio manager at Florida’s state pension fund, has joined New York-based Capital Z Investment Partners.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Four partners and another 12 professionals specialising in private equity have defected from Deloitte to join rival KPMG’s private equity group in London.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
CVC Capital Partners has acquired a Belgian lighting company to be incorporated into a newly created pan-European group, Partners in Lighting International.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
3i has bolstered its reputation by turning a £935m total net loss into a £531m total net profit in its latest financial year.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Doughty Hanson, the pan-European private equity firm, has announced its intention to float football clothing and equipment business Umbro on the London Stock Exchange by the end of June 2004.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
London-based Terra Firma Capital Partners has sold Wizard Inns, the 63-strong managed pub group, to Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries for £96.7 million.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
London-based private equity firm Permira has submitted a £940 million offer for WH Smith, the UK high street retailer.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The European private equity firm has acquired a controlling stake in Keolis, the French transportation company, for a reported €500m.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
