Private Equity
UK mid-market private equity firm ISIS Equity Partners has completed the management buyout of Spaform, a manufacturer of spa baths.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Jersey Financial Services Commission has published details of a regulatory initiative aimed at attracting private equity and hedge fund promoters. Tim Herbert explains.
4 min read · 30 December 2012
ABN Amro has appointed James Courtenay, formerly of CIBC World Markets, head of European high yield and leveraged finance.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Nordic buyout firm EQT has sold Finnish baker Vaasan & Vaasan for an undisclosed sum to another equity house sum following a limited auction led by Deutsche Bank.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The UK betting company is reportedly scheduled for an £830m refinancing that will return 60 percent of Charterhouse’s investment in the business it backed 18 months ago.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The Paris-headquartered private equity house has agreed a deal with the French shoe and clothing retailer’s majority shareholders to buy their 68 percent stake.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
As part of a new strategy aimed at building a portfolio of majority stakes in early stage technology companies, London-based Interregnum has acquired a radio frequency engineering company for £1.5m.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The New York middle-market firm buys the global manufacturer and distributor of alternators and starter motors from San Francisco private equity group Genstar Capital.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Sir Richard Sykes is to become chairman of Medeus, a new company which has acquired the drugs marketing arm of Elan Corporation in a $120m MBI funded by Apax Partners.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Wellington Partners, the Munich-based venture capital firm, has sold German content security provider Cobion to Nasdaq-listed Internet Security Systems, an IT security firm, for $33m.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
