The BC Partners-led consortium has pulled off its YTL3.9 billion bid for Migros Türk in the face of strong competition including The Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It is Europe’s largest deal since credit markets seized up.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Ernst & Young veteran John Harley has landed a top private equity role and he is looking forward to helping advance the transparency debate surrounding sovereign wealth funds.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Ernst & Young veteran John Harley has landed a top private equity role and he is looking forward to helping advance the transparency debate surrounding sovereign wealth funds.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The BC Partners-led consortium has pulled off its YTL3.9 billion bid for Migros Türk in the face of strong competition including The Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It is Europe’s largest deal since credit markets seized up.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The beleaguered global payment services company has secured bailout financing worth $1.2 billion between debt and equity components.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The middle market firm’s $30 million investment in niche lender FirstAgain is its first in the sector since hiring former JPMorgan and CCMP pro Carty Chock.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Someone’s going to make a killing, but it will take nerves of steel, writes Nicholas Lockley.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Fresh from closing its fourth turnaround fund on $4 billion, WL Ross has hired John Kanas, former CEO of North Fork Bancorp, to advise on investments in distressed financial services firms.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Alliance Data Systems has dropped its case against Blackstone less than two weeks after suing the private equity firm to force an agreed $7.8 billion buyout.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Private equity real estate firms around the globe last year set a new record on the fundraising trail, according to proprietary statistics from PERE magazine.
2 min read · 12 January 2013