TDR Capital has completed its fifth investment with the acquisition of modular buildings supplier Elliott Group for £166m.
The recent announcement that UK pension fund Railpen has set aside four percent of total assets for allocation to hedge funds should come as no surprise: it has always been an adventurous investor. Andy Thomson reports.
The Paris-based private equity group has launched its first Asian fund of funds with a closing target of between $150 million and $200 million.
Doug Kimmelman, one of the major players behind Goldman Sachs’ power investments, will launch a $1bn private equity fund to invest in North American electricity assets.
UK-based drug development company Oxagen has received almost £32m in a series B round of financing led by MPM Capital in its first European investment.
Yates Group, the UK wine bar chain, is being acquired by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz just nine months after being backed by private equity firm GI Partners.
High profile private equity group Terra Firma Capital Partners is the lead investor in the £90m purchase of a UK gas connection business from Centrica.
Despite Carlyle’s recent abandonment of its Russian fundraising effort, Delta Private Equity has held a successful close of a $120m fund dedicated to Russia and Ukraine.
The US private equity firm has acquired the Danish-headquartered theme park operator, its second major European theme park deal in the last two months.
Terra Firma Capital Partners is set to sign terms to acquire German property group Viterra for €7 billion in Europe’s largest private equity deal to date.