Buyouts
Permira puts forward bid for Panrico
Permira has placed a bid to buy Panrico, a Spanish bun and pastry company, reports suggest.
AXA acquires majority stake in GO Voyages
AXA Private Equity has acquired a majority stake in GO Voyages, the French online travel site.
Procuritas acquires Oral Care
Procuritas has acquired Swedish mobile dentistry company, Oral Care.
Permira teams up with AMEX for RBS WorldPay bid
Permira and American Express are thought to have partnered to make a bid for Royal Bank of Scotland’s payment processing business.
Energy Ventures lead NOK 170m buyout of Read Well
Energy Ventures has, alongside Viking Venture, KLP and management, wholly acquired oil & gas services provider Read Well Services (RWS), valuing the business at NOK 170m.
Call centre investments: Supporting the recovery
During the downturn, private equity firms invested defensively, particularly in the outsourced services sector. Now the economy is recovering, investors are looking to benefit from what is widely seen as a consolidating market. Mareen Goebel gives an...
EQT raises AcadeMedia bid
EQT has increased its bid for Swedish education provider AcadeMedia from SEK 190 to SEK 205 per share, valuing the company at approximately SEK 2.473bn.
Summit takes majority stake in Ogone
Summit Partners is to acquire a majority stake in online payment processing company Ogone SA/NV; financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Borea acquires WorkShop
Borea has wholly acquired staffing and temping agency WorkShop Bemanning & Kompetanse, alongside Isoldi and Nycon.
Ambienta acquires 60% stake in Ecotek
Specialist environmental investor Ambienta has acquired a 60% stake in alternative fuel producer Ecotek. The balance is retained by the Ravelli family.
Apax Partners heads field in Sif Group auction
Apax Partners is leading the field of bidders in the auction Sif Group, which is put on the block by its private equity owner Egeriam, according to reports.
Chemicals: Is private equity getting the mix right?
While the alchemists of old never succeeded in turning lead into gold, private equity investors are seeing opportunities to profit from the chemicals sector. With a swathe of recent activity in the industry, including a major exit, chemicals companies...
Avenir Entreprises in Labaronne Citaf SBO
Private equity investor Avenir Entreprises has backed the secondary management buyout of French cistern manufacturer, Labaronne Citaf.
Terra Firma ‘confident’ on EMI debt
Terra Firma says it is confident it will meet its debt obligations to Citigroup into the next year, according to reports.
Take-privates: Private equity firms scan the market
Despite a broad recovery in world stock markets, listing portfolio companies has been somewhat hit and miss in early 2010. While few companies have made the leap to public ownership, there have been a string of take-private deals in recent months, suggesting...
BlueGem to acquire Liberty
London-based private equity operator BlueGem is in the process of presenting an offer for the acquisition of an 86.3% stake luxury department store Liberty, according to market rumours.
Herkules buys Norwegian sportswear maker ODLO
Herkules Private Equity has signed an agreement to buy Norwegian sportswear manufacturer, ODLO Sports Group.
Elysian Capital acquires Vertical Pharma Resources
Elysian Capital has backed the management buyout of pharmaceutical supplier Vertical Pharma Resources Limited. Two of the original four founders of the business, trading as Integrated Pharmaceutical Services (IPS), have fully exited.
GED acquires 70% stake in EP4
Spanish private equity investor GED has acquired a 70% stake in engineering business Estudio Pereda 4 (EP4).
Albion invests £6.4m into new NHS facility
Albion Ventures has invested £6.4m into an NHS hospital in Somerset, South West England. The facility will have 62 beds and provide rehabilitation and long-term health care.
Sun Capital acquires Famosa
US-based Sun Capital Partners has wholly acquired toy store Famosa from Vista Capital. Completion of the deal is subject to regulatory approval.
Sun European Partners acquires Hewden Stuart in £110m deal
Sun European Partners has purchased Hewden Stuart, a Manchester-based construction equipment provider, from Canada's Finning International for £110m.
Fondations Capital acquires Tarmac assets
Fondations Capital signed its maiden investment by purchasing Tarmac’s French and Belgian building materials divisions in a spin-off acquisition alongside CIC Investissement Nord.
Gaming investments still worth a punt
Once considered a happy hunting ground for private equity, some gaming investments have turned sour in the past couple of years as many businesses have had to restructure their debt. That does not mean there are not profitable investments to be had, as...