The two private equity firms are taking private luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in a $5 billion deal, following a string of recent buyouts.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Bridgepoint has used its £189 million (€291 million; $377 million) refinancing of its investment in Pets at Home to pay off £20 million of mezzanine debt and pay itself a £70 million dividend.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The mid-market firm has closed its fifth private equity fund, with nearly all previous investors returning for another helping.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Italy’s BS Private Equity has teamed up with the private equity arm of Italian bank Mediocredito Centrale to purchase listed cleaning company IPC.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Members of the Soros Private Equity team have spun out of George Soros’ money management firm to form TowerBrook Capital Partners, a $1.3bn transatlantic private equity firm.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
ISIS Equity Partners, led by Wol Kolade, will soon cease to be a captive operation – a move prompted less by a hunger for independence than a pragmatic view on hindering accounting rules, writes Jonn Elledge.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
A host of private equity bidders were outmanoeuvred by a South Korean brewing firm in the battle for control of one of the Asian drinks industry’s most prized assets.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
A good partner in private equity
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Making private equity more efficient
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Jack Welch doesn't need an introduction. One of America's most revered managers, he spent 20 years at the helm of General Electric, the gravitydefying conglomerate which under his tenure grew into the world's most valuable company. In 2001, Welch became a private equity executive when he joined Clayton, Dubilier & Rice as a special partner. Currently promoting his new book, entitled Winning*, he took time out in May to talk to Philip Borel about private equity's role in industry today.
8 min read · 12 January 2013
