The refinancing boom may be over, but deals in Eastern Europe can still get done even now.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
Germany's association of alternative investors is unimpressed with the government's effort to reform private equity legislation.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Two recent exits further Noson Lawen's point that small is beautiful.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Bessemer Venture Partners will go ‘carbon neutral’ by the end of the year, a step few private equity or venture capital firms appear poised to take.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
A JC Flowers-led consortium has said it will likely drop its $25 billion bid for Sallie Mae, but is willing to renogotiate the deal, taking into consideration a changed economic and legislative environment.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Business services specialist Lyceum Capital has sold health and safety company National Britannia Group after two and a half years to asset manager Connaught. Jeremy Hand, managing partner, said there was considerable interest.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Swedish buyout firm Litorina Kapital, led by Harold Kaiser, has held the final close of its latest fund two times oversubscribed despite losing cornerstone investor Swedbank.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Trade buyer Towergate has bought IT company Open International from Montagu Private Equity, led by Chris Masterson, indicating trade sales are still viable as an exit route.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The New York private equity firm has acquired a 50 percent interest in a portfolio of Solo Cup manufacturing facilities throughout the US.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
KKR and Goldman Sachs plan to walk away from their previously agreed $8 billion buyout of Harman International Industries, claiming the audio equipment maker has had a material adverse change in its business and breached the agreement. Harman disputes the claims.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
