Buyouts

Dealflow expected to rise as summer ends
Dealflow: Autumn boom expected after slow summer

As the summer holiday season draws to a close, Europe’s private equity market is set to pick up. While activity has slowed significantly in some regions, industry players are expecting a deal-doing boom in the coming weeks and months.

Turnaround deals have been conspicuous by their rarity
Turnaround investments: A waiting game

With the UK economy sliding into recession at the beginning of last year, many expected 2010 to be the year of turnarounds. So far though, the flurry of deals has not materialised. Greg Gille investigates

Triton acquires Ovako

Triton Partners has wholly acquired the bar, bright bar, tube and ring divisions of Swedish steel producer Ovako.

EQT backs MBO of Roeser Group

EQT has backed the management buyout of Roeser Group with a €50m investment from the EQT Expansion Capital II fund.

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Banks seek to harvest opportunities after long drought
Banks seek to make hay while the sun shines

Looking around Europe’s buyout markets, it is clear that some banks are well and truly back in the game. But the recent rise in deal completions, including those at the top end of the scale, masks an altogether more complex marketplace. Julian Longhurst...

German buyout market still slumbering but not for long
German buyouts: the giant stirs?

Despite encouraging macroeconomic signs and increasing buyout activity elsewhere, the level of deal completions in the German buyout market remains well below par. What chances are there of an up-tick in this giant market? Julian Longhurst investigates.

Over-leverage haunts portfolio companies acquired during the boom years
Private equity haunted by pre-crisis deals

As AA and Saga are hitting the headlines once again, private equity it seems is being haunted by the ghosts of 2007’s exuberance. While the years preceding the financial crisis saw some of the largest private equity-backed deals of all time, many of...

Private equity eyes Tribal Group

Private equity companies are reportedly circling Tribal Group, an AIM-listed UK company focussed on providing consulting and advisory services to the public sector.

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Mega-buyouts on their way back
The return of the mega-buyout

Mega-buyouts of over €1bn are on their way back following a drought of activity during the global financial crisis, according to unquote” research. Signs of life are starting to appear at the very top-end of private equity investing, but Europe’s...