Europe appears on the verge of a mezzanine revival.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Exponent Private Equity, a UK mid-market firm founded in 2004, has closed its second fund with commitments of £805 million ( €1 billion; $1.6 billion). The fund is double the amount raised in the first fund in 2004. Investors included funds managed by Pathway, Pantheon Ventures, Danske Private Equity, MassPRIM, OMERS Capital Partners, NYL Capital Partners and Bank of Scotland, as well as substantial US endowment and European private family sources. Hugh Richards, one of the firm's four founding partners, answers PEI's questions.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
TOUGH ON TOYS 2008-02-01 Staff Writer The Service Employees International Union stepped up its toxic toys campaign in time for the holiday shopping season. The labour union organised a group of activists and mothers to protest outside Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' New York headquarters, with the goal of persuadin
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Editor's letter 2008-02-01 Staff Writer “The reality is we've gone from a raging bull market in credit to a bear market. Now people are worrying about anything and everything.” So said David Brickman, director of credit strategy at Lehman Brothers, in the context of a <italic>Financial Times</italic
2 min read · 12 January 2013
US buyout firm JC Flowers has been unable to sell the Dutch bank, despite agreeing a deal in August. The cancelled deal may dampen Flowers’ interest in UK bank Northern Rock and UK insurer Friends Provident.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The Nordic buyout firm has raised a later stage venture technology fund a week after it closed a real estate fund specially set up to acquire Nordic hotels.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The Nordic buyout firm has raised a later stage venture technology fund a week after it closed a real estate fund specially set up to acquire Nordic hotels.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The global hedge fund has recruited two bankers from Lloyds TSB after employing the UK bank’s former head of structured finance last year to set up its direct capital team.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The US investment firm is the most prominent interested party in the bidding for UK investment bank Close Brothers and it is reportedly lining up a quick sale of the bank’s assets upon acquisition.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Should courts rule that BCE’s purchasing consortium must buy out the telecom’s disgruntled bondholders, Ontario Teachers’ has said the largest LBO agreed to date may fail.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
