Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, The Carlyle Group and Merrill Lynch Private Equity reclaim almost half of their original equity investment in the rental car company via a debt-financing commitment.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
While groups like New York’s Avenue Capital are seeing distressed opportunities increasing around the world, China is currently grabbing most attention. Andy Thomson finds out why.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
French captive Axa Private Equity is giving Eurotunnel’s restructuring a Gallic seal of approval, assuaging French retail investors and taking the group a step closer to recovery.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Fund manager AMVESCAP is buying WL Ross & Co, a US alternative assets manager, to beef up its product line-up for its clients.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Byeon Yang-ho, managing director and founder of South Korean buyout fund Vogo, is the latest private equity professional to feel the heat from the country’s authorities.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Chartered Marketing Services, majority owned by TA Associates and Spectrum Equity Investors, will be sold to Intersections Inc.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
London-listed European mezzanine provider ICG is growing rapidly – despite being more selective on deals than ever. Robert Venes reports.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
European mezzanine provider Intermediate Capital Group also put a record amount of capital to work in the fourteen months to 2005, arranging or providing £899m of debt financing.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
In response to a proposed tender offer, the private equity arm of Japan’s Nomura Holdings is selling part of its stake in Resort Solutions, a property manager previously known as Misawa Resort.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
As real estate investors compete for increasingly scarce opportunities, the need for due diligence to be conducted quickly has never been greater. By Dave Keating
9 min read · 12 January 2013