A new Softbank affiliate is making its mark across Asia.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Sun Capital takes a second swing with a subprime lender.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
Operational heavyweight Bruno Deschamps swaps Clayton, Dubilier for 3i.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
LBO funds buying into metal-processing businesses in Germany will need to get along with IG Metall.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Lone Star said in a letter to Accredited Home Lenders today that it would loosen the closing conditions of the deal if Accredited agrees to cut its price from $400 million to $225 million.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Advantage Partners, one of Japan’s most prominent local private equity groups, is making its first foray into what one investor referred to as ‘hedge fund management’, with a $2 billion fund that will buy minority stakes in listed Japanese companies.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Accent Equity has sold Swedish flower delivery service EuroFlorist to Litorina Kapital. It is the third investment in three months from the Swedish firm’s third fund.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Amid reports that the Blackstone Group is considering a flotation of restaurant group Tragus, a new report reveals that private equity firms are now the most active investors in UK leisure property.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Coates Hire is the latest listed Australian company to reject a buyout offer because the price was too low. The Carlyle Group had reportedly been a frontrunner in the race for the machinery rental company.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan has hit out at the proliferation of equity bridge facilities used on large buyout deals, suggesting that they are not good for the lending banks or the private equity sponsors.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
