Private Equity
The UK-based private equity house is planning to sell the German specialist dentistry unit it acquired for around E400m in 1997.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Tom Singh has reportedly held talks with Apax Partners about the backing of an offer for the UK fashion retailer he founded.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Partners Group, Pantheon Ventures, West Midlands Pension Fund and the State of Michigan are among the LPs that have committed to Doughty Hanson IV.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The German venture capital firm is planning to raise up to E75m to invest in early-stage technology projects and university spin-offs.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Former Merrill Lynch banker Eric Fellhauer has joined the private equity firm’s German team as a director for European buyouts.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The UK firm has completed a £50m transaction which gives it a majority stake in the provider of specialist care provider.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
CDC Group, the $1.5bn UK government-owned risk capital provider to private companies in poorer countries, is changing its organisational structure ahead of an external fundraising effort.
3 min read · 30 December 2012
European venture capitalists invested E709m in the second quarter of 2003, 1.5 per cent less than in the first quarter, according to figures from Ernst & Young and VentureOne.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
London-based Stirling Square Capital has led a E145m recapitalisation of the Dutch plastic packaging business in a deal that sees JP Morgan Partners and the company’s controlling family reduce their stake in the business.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The UK private equity firm has acquired French industrial group Frans Bonhomme from PAI, Cinven and Astorg Partners in a E520m buyout.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
