Hedge fund managers are rubbing their hands at the prospect of a rapid increase in loan-to-own opportunities as covenant breaches are predicted to rise, according to the latest research.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Hedge fund managers are rubbing their hands at the prospect of a rapid increase in loan-to-own opportunities as covenant breaches are predicted to rise, according to the latest research.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
European buyout firm Bridgepoint has made its first standalone acquisition in central and eastern Europe after opening an office in the region six months ago. At the same time it has managed to recapitalise a Finnish business despite debt market travails.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Cerberus is joining KKR, Goldman Sachs and JC Flowers to become the latest buyout firm to walk away from a megadeal agreed before the liquidity crisis.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Dubai International Capital has jointly raised a $300 million infrastructure and energy fund with two other firms as the Middle Eastern investor continues at a frenetic pace.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The details of the sale options for struggling UK bank Northern Rock reveal bidders may be able to acquire the bank without taking on the company’s expected £24 billion debt to the Bank of England.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Private equity icon Thomas H. Lee has said the credit crisis is ‘not a cash crisis’ but a crisis of confidence that will primarily affect the availability of debt financing for private equity deals valued at more than $1 billion.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
European mid-market firm Bridgepoint has sold Alliance Medical to Dubai International Capital, as the investment firm continues a flurry of acquisitions.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Dubai International Capital, the Middle Eastern investment firm, has bought Almatis in a secondary deal, with loans at more than six times EBITDA provided by Swiss bank UBS.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Friends in high places 2007-11-01 Staff Writer A giant residential complex now involved in a real estate controversy was home to a far more scintillating controversy. Dolphin Square in Pimlico near the Thames River in London is a great hulking mass of a building. It was built between 1935 and 1937 by a Briti
3 min read · 12 January 2013
