Private Equity
US insurance group AIG has revealed details of a joint venture with the Russian investment group which will see the launch of a $300m private equity fund.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Belgian private equity firm has agreed to commit up to E30m to a German mid-market buyout fund being raised by its subsidiary Halder.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
US-based Baker Capital has teamed with Nordic Capital to acquire Vivendi Universal’s Nordic pay television provider Canal+ Television.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The firm has sold a 69 per cent stake in Polish pharmaceutical group Polfa Kutno for $79m, yielding a 5.4 multiple on the invested capital.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The US private equity unit of the UK insurance group has hired John Guinee as an investment director in its Boston office.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The UK mid-market private equity firm has agreed to back a management buy-in of the media group’s TV unit led by former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Christopher Spencer has left Clayton Dubilier & Rice’s London office less than seven months after coming in to help boost the firm’s presence in the European buyout market.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
HSBC’s former private equity unit has agreed to pay £142m for The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, pipping ABN Amro Capital and JP Morgan Partners to the purchase.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Legal & General Ventures, Barclays Private Equity and HgCapital have submitted separate bids of up to £80m for LGC, the former government science institution.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Having added a prime asset to its London hotel portfolio, the US private equity group is in talks with Deutsche Bank over the purchase of a E1bn portfolio of 50 Deutsche offices in Europe.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
