Andy Thomson
The UK mid-market specialist has acquired holiday home and caravan group Cinque Ports Leisure in a £130m deal.
The Indian private equity market approximately doubled in size during 2005, both in terms of number and value of completed deals.
Anhui Conch has benefited from an anticipated recovery in the Chinese cement industry by securing a $200m investment from Morgan Stanley and the IFC.
Australia’s CHAMP Private Equity and its US partner Castle Harlan have made 6.5 times cash through the turnaround of pay TV business Austar United Communications.
Legal & General Ventures has just returned from the fundraising trail for the fifth time in five years: this time with £200m in donations. Andy Thomson reports.
The pan-Asian buyout firm is reportedly bidding for the Myer department store chain in conjunction with the company’s founding family.
The investment firm launched 11 years ago by US buyout houses Texas Pacific Group and Blum Capital Partners has wrapped up a new $1.5bn vehicle targeting Asia.
An investment group led by Sydney-based Pacific Equity Partners appears to have missed out on what could have been Australia’s largest buyout to date.
The Australian investment bank is reported to be close to agreeing the purchase of Taiwan Broadband Communications in a secondary buyout from Carlyle Group of the US.
Nordic Capital has agreed to sell the Nordic distributor of installation-related products to Cinven and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners in a secondary buyout.