Private Equity
The firm is backing a management buyout of the European speciality chemicals distributor in a deal worth E135m.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The venture capital unit of the German electronics group has made two further investments in the US this week, taking the total for the year to fourteen.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Swiss private equity house has completed the sale of its wholesale heating products business in a £52m (SFr118m) deal with UK building material products business Wolseley.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Private equity’s corporate governance procedures are superior to those of public companies, argues Simon Wildig of Close Brothers.
4 min read · 30 December 2012
Private equity firm Candover has sold Pandrol, the designer and manufacturer of rail track fastening and support systems, to French engineering group Delachaux for £165m.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Charterhouse Development Capital (CDC) is reported to be examining four bids worth around £900m for portfolio company Tussauds Group, owner of Madame Tussauds waxworks.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Germany’s MG Technologies has sold Safic-Alcan to French buyout house Alpha Group and family investment vehicle Daniel Lebard Management Development (DLMD).
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The UK-listed private equity firm has agreed to pay just over £46m to acquire the regional newspaper businesses of Trinity Mirror in the North of Ireland.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
British engineering and production technology company Invensys has agreed to sell its utility metering unit to the $1.5bn Resolute Fund managed by US private equity firm The Jordan Company.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Electra Partners Europe has agreed to back a E205m management buyout at Aliplast, the European conservatory and window systems supplier based in Belgium.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
