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.
VoIP provider Vonage last week snagged $200m in a series E round led by Bain Capital. In a post-bubble venture investing environment where less is more, why is this startup getting so much?
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.
The bloodless revolution that gripped the watching world and swept Viktor Yushchenko to the office of president in Ukraine may be just over 100 days old, but private equity funds in the region are already gearing up to take advantage. Colm Gilmore reports.
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.
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, formed in 1986, will spin out of its parent company as an independent venture capital firm called Crossmark Capital.
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.
Thomas H. Lee and CIVC will reap a huge profit in the sale of TransWestern Publishing, a US yellow pages publisher, to London’s Yell Group.
The private equity arm of Credit Suisse First Boston has closed its third secondary fund on $2.4 billion to invest in buyout, venture capital and real estate partnerships.