Private Equity
The US investment bank’s private equity unit has said it will not back a higher offer from Laragrove for the UK department store.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Royal London Private Equity has backed the £26m buyout of UK property services company Emprise, following a second close of its first-time mid market fund on £71m.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Legal & General Ventures has acquired the Laboratory of the Government Chemist from 3i in a secondary deal backed with senior debt from HSBC, Bank of Ireland and SG Corporate and Investment Banking.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
French private equity firm Butler Capital Partners has announced it is in talks with Austria’s Agrana about the possible sale of ATYS Group, a Butler portfolio company.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Global Life Science Ventures leads $13m biotech round; VCs back French semiconductor company; UK Web filtering firms lands £7.3m round; DVC leads $8.5m Klotz Digital investment; NBG exits Bulgarian DIY chain;
3 min read · 30 December 2012
Matthias Moser, a financial managing director focused on Terra Firma’s German activities, has quit the firm to join Eurohypo, the German mortgage bank and real estate investor.
3 min read · 30 December 2012
The Dutch distribution business has confirmed that it is holding talks with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice over ways of refinancing the debt-laden business.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The former Terra Firma managing director is joining Fortress Investment Group as a managing director of the firm’s alternative investment team in Germany.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
David Chamberlain, managing director of private equity at Swiss-based funds of funds manager Unigestion, is to leave the firm in May 2004.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The US buyout firm has paid just over £100m to acquire the UK-listed support service company’s £850m turnover business.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
