The UK-listed private equity frim is reportedly considering a move into investing in debt instruments. Other firms which have recently moved to take advantage of credit opportunities include Providence Equity Partners and BC Partners.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
The UK’s secretary of state for business, Peter Mandelson, last night urged BVCA members to help drive UK economic growth by backing entrepreneurial start-ups and growing SMEs ‘into world beaters’. He also addressed the industry’s efforts to battle negative public perception, noting it had surpassed its ‘pain threshold’.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The buyout industry has been incapable of ‘using leverage sensibly’ and must support restrictions on excess LBO debt, argued Hugh MacArthur, global head of Bain & Co’s private equity practice.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The buyout industry has been incapable of ‘using leverage sensibly’ and must support restrictions on excess LBO debt, argued Hugh MacArthur, global head of Bain & Co’s private equity practice. He was joined at PEI's Middle East Forum by Delta Private Equity's Patricia Cloherty, who noted ‘cheap debt is simply seductive, and everyone is complicit on the upside’.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Fresh from raising nearly €1bn for its eighth mid-cap fund, the French private equity firm is aligning itself to take advantage of market dislocation. It is also raising its third small-cap fund.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
AREA Property Partners has teamed up with F&C REIT to buy a package of properties once owned by Dawnay Day, the property investor whose subsidiary companies were placed into administration last year.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The switch from a vehicle fuel tax to a vehicle miles traveled tax would be complemented by a range of financing mechanisms like expansion of the TIFIA credit program and more support for PPPs, according to the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission’s final report to Congress.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The European venture firm collected commitments from LPs in just three months for its latest early stage fund. It is the same size as its 2007 predecessor, which has been nearly fully deployed alongside a growth capital fund.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The UK buyout house has booked a €1.3bn impairment – half the value of the equity investment – on the 2007 deal. It will also return €80m of carry to investors, because according to chief executive Guy Hands, 'our investors have suffered and therefore our rewards should suffer'.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Richard Cotton, a 13-year stalwart of real estate investment banking at JP Morgan Cazenove in London is leaving to join Greenwich-based Forum Partners.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
