For many investors, Irish venture capital is a niche industry within European private equity. However, recent developments anticipate a bright future for the market, writes Jo Nash.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Recent developments in the direct secondary market anticipate a more positive future for European early stage capital, writes Jo Nash.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
On the south side of the equator and east of the Atlantic lies a country that some private equity heavyweights increasingly consider to be a hidden gem.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Joshua Gotbaum will join the upstart New York-based firm as an operating partner and will also become its chief restructuring officer.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Private equity houses have bucked the consensus that leverage ratios will rise in 2007 as 40 percent predict a decrease.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Along with members of the company’s management team, the two firms have agreed to buy Nasdaq-traded Educate in a deal worth $545m. It is Citigroup’s and Sterling’s second education-related deal announced today.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Industri Kapital has made 2.5 times its investment on the sale of Gardena, a gardening tools manufacturer, for €730 million.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Jonny Maxwell, one of the industry’s most high-profile executives, has walked away from the fund of funds business he built over almost two decades after failing to agree a buyout with his employer.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The ratings agency says infrastructure is overvalued, blaming private equity interest in the sector and cheap financing.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Advantage Partners, a Tokyo-based private equity firm raising its fourth fund, has agreed to buy the financial business of Japan’s fallen internet giant Livedoor.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
