Emerging Capital Partners managed to make a 3.4 times return from its stake in a rubber company with operations in the Ivory Coast, despite the country being wracked by civil war.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
A new Softbank affiliate is making its mark across Asia.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Operational heavyweight Bruno Deschamps swaps Clayton, Dubilier for 3i.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
Finland’s state pension fund wants to increase its alternatives allocation still further after another strong set of results.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Advantage Partners, one of Japan’s most prominent local private equity groups, is making its first foray into what one investor referred to as ‘hedge fund management’, with a $2 billion fund that will buy minority stakes in listed Japanese companies.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Accent Equity has sold Swedish flower delivery service EuroFlorist to Litorina Kapital. It is the third investment in three months from the Swedish firm’s third fund.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
John Stomber, chief executive of Carlyle Capital Corporation, has apologised to shareholders about poor communication of portfolio troubles as its parent makes its second loan in a week.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Home Depot has agreed to accept $1.8 billion less than previously agreed in the sale of its HD Supply unit to Carlyle, Bain and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Several of the world’s biggest private equity firms are already consulting with LPs about their next funds, but uncertainties about the pace of dealmaking and size of allocations are hampering these efforts.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
CIT Capital Finance has delivered financing for the Rutland Partners-led acquisition of Pulse Home Products while Electra Private Equity has carried out a third refinancing on Allflex.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
