Private Equity
Inflexion Private Equity has announced the management buyout of Healthcare Knowledge Systems International, the second investment from its Private Equity Fund 2.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The Los Angeles buyout firm has agreed to sell auto assembly components company, Autocam, to Goldman Sachs and Transportation Resource Partners.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
3i, Earlybird and IKB have realised their investment in element 5 AG, an electronic software distribution supplier in Europe and Asia, via a $120 million trade sale to Digital River Inc.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Ewen Macpherson, former chief executive of 3i, has been appointed non-executive director of Hotbed.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The stock market is continuing to prove a fruitful source of exits for European private equity firms, with a number of IPO announcements emerging from an increasingly long pipeline of potential new issues.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
As private equity continues to mature as an asset class, sophisticated investors are increasingly turning to the secondaries market as a method of actively managing their private equity exposure. Here Ivan Vercoutère and Wolfgang Müller of LGT Capital Partners outline the benefits and the challenges of using the secondary market as an active portfolio management tool from the perspective of both the “buyside” and the “sellside”.
10 min read · 30 December 2012
Advent International partners with German media group RTL to take control of Sportfive, the French-listed sports agency specialising in marketing European football rights.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Clayton Dubilier & Rice is selling its stake in the international cosmetics business to Germany-based household appliance company Vorwerk.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
CVC Capital Partners, the pan-European private equity firm, has appointed Sir Ian Robinson and John Sunderland to its UK advisory board.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
In the year’s biggest US private equity deal, KKR has agreed to buy PanAmSat from its majority stakeholder, DirectTV Group.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
