Deals

Axel Meyersiek joins as a senior partner and will be based in BC Partners’ Frankfurt office.

The European firm has acquired Sweden’s Happy Socks in the fifth deal from its fourth fund, which is nearing a final €400m close.

Proposed guidelines on leveraged transactions may increase restrictions on banks and present greater opportunities for private debt funds.

Blackstone Core Equity Partners, which has at least a 15-year investment time horizon, saw an attractive opportunity in a music licensing and royalty company.

Asia-based private equity market participants expect a tougher year for fundraising as well as more competition for big-ticket deals.

Amandeep Sandhu, chair of the India practice group at law firm McMillan, and Ravipal Bains, an associate, look at the reasons the sub-continent is so attractive.

Buyers were paying more than ever for eurozone companies in the third quarter of 2016.

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Jonathan Corsico and Joseph West, partners at law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, discuss risks involved in investing in the defence sector and how to mitigate them.