Equity for the E3.7bn acquisition of Legrand is provided by a group of sponsors led by KKR and Wendel and including HSBC, West LB and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The Charme funda, a fund targeting Italian consumer brands and products, has held a first close at E110m.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
US private equity house Behrman Capital has paid $122m for the lab testing services division of Irish pharmaceutical business Elan Corp.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Leveraged financiers are bracing themselves for another challenging year. Senior lenders remain focused on fundamentals and the recovery of the high yield market is taking time, with buyers and sellers quarrelling over structural issues. Robin Burnett takes the pulse of the European leveraged debt market.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Limited partners' search for liquidity in private equity has provided structured product specialists with their best opportunity yet to prove they can change the face of the asset class. Expectations are running high, but what's needed next is evidence that private equity securitisation really works. Now is the time for the industry to deliver the deals. Philip Borel reports.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Americas 2003-02-01 Staff Writer <strong>America<br> Monitor</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>Leaders of the fee world</strong><br> <bold>The management fee now finds itself the subject of some hostility. Investors question whether this particular f
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Europe 2003-02-01 Staff Writer <strong>Europe<br> Deals & Exits</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>Klesch buys Dynegy's European unit</strong><br> UK distressed specialist Klesch & Company has bought Dynegy's entire European broadband unit as the st
10 min read · 12 January 2013
ACR backs Finnish firm Radionet; Xcellsyz completes £1.2m round; Giza backs $10m second round
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Advent International has made its 75th investment in the communications sector with a E100m buyout of a European mobile telecoms clearing business.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
After a torrid time involving burst technology bubbles, court cases and allegations of far-flung fraud, the Belgian VC is still shrinking.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
