Armed with its new €5.8bn buyout fund, pan-European LBO house BC Partners has hired Nikos Stathopoulos from Apax and Giampiero Mazza from Englefield.
The Group, a new United Arab Emirates private equity firm, has been set up to invest AED200m in the region.
The $32m financing of India’s largest private shipyard is the latest in a series of infrastructure-related deals that have seen domestic private equity funds scrambling for a slice of the action.
All is not peace and harmony between Russia and the US in Europe’s Black Sea region. But investment groups from the two countries have joined forces to prove that co-operation is possible when money – not politics – is the motivation. Andy Thomson reports.
The UK mid-market private equity firm has announced changes to its senior management team, with Chris Dowling stepping down as managing partner.
Days after the official launch of Blackstone’s $11bn fund, BC Partners has closed the largest-ever European buyout fund on “over €5.5bn”.
TDR Capital has completed its fifth investment with the acquisition of modular buildings supplier Elliott Group for £166m.
The recent announcement that UK pension fund Railpen has set aside four percent of total assets for allocation to hedge funds should come as no surprise: it has always been an adventurous investor. Andy Thomson reports.
The Paris-based private equity group has launched its first Asian fund of funds with a closing target of between $150 million and $200 million.
UK-based drug development company Oxagen has received almost £32m in a series B round of financing led by MPM Capital in its first European investment.
Yates Group, the UK wine bar chain, is being acquired by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz just nine months after being backed by private equity firm GI Partners.
High profile private equity group Terra Firma Capital Partners is the lead investor in the £90m purchase of a UK gas connection business from Centrica.
The bloodless revolution that gripped the watching world and swept Viktor Yushchenko to the office of president in Ukraine may be just over 100 days old, but private equity funds in the region are already gearing up to take advantage. Colm Gilmore reports.
Despite Carlyle’s recent abandonment of its Russian fundraising effort, Delta Private Equity has held a successful close of a $120m fund dedicated to Russia and Ukraine.
The US private equity firm has acquired the Danish-headquartered theme park operator, its second major European theme park deal in the last two months.