Charterhouse Capital Partners
Charterhouse buys Cooper in first deal for latest fund
French pharma is understood to be worth in the region of €700m
Charterhouse X holds €1.5bn first close
Fund targeting тЌ3bn with тЌ3.5bn hard-cap
Comexposium deal highlights popularity of exhibitions market
Private equity is increasingly targeting the exhibitions market
Charterhouse sells Deb to SC Johnson
Sale reportedly valued in the region of ТЃ650m
Charterhouse sells £106m of Card Factory shares
GP retains a 29.5% stake in the firm
Lack of passport could force Italian GPs to emigrate
Italy's hasty enforcement of the AIFMD is causing a GP exodus
Parquest sells FDI to Charterhouse's Webhelp
GP had backed FDI's MBO in 2003
CVC's Autobar goes to US creditors
CVC writes off investment
Charterhouse's Elior raises €847m in IPO
Charterhouse stake reduced to 40%
Acromas in partial exit from AA pre-IPO
Acromas could sell entire shareholding as part of flotation
PE-backed Saga raises £550m in IPO
PE backers grant overallotment option
Card Factory prices shares at 225 pence
Offering will raise proceeds of ТЃ206.6m
Saga announces expected price range of LSE flotation
Offer price to range between 185-245 pence
Saga announces plans to raise £550m in IPO
Proceeds will be used to pay down net debt
Charterhouse's Card Factory joins IPO run
Offer is expected to raise ТЃ90m
Charterhouse buys Skillsoft in SBO
Sale reportedly valued at more than $2bn
AA downplays flotation talks
Acromas confirms approaches, but no firm plan yet
Charterhouse buys Nuova Castelli
Deal is believed to be valued at more than €300m
Large-cap segment boosts DACH deal totals
Buyout activity was buoyed by a handful of large-cap deals in 2013. But is there hope for a brighter future further down the value scale? Amy King reports
Charterhouse's Webhelp picks up SNT
Charterhouse-backed Webhelp Group, a French provider of customer management solutions, has acquired Dutch customer contact services provider SNT.
Italian GPs cash in as valuation gap narrows
Last year was challenging for Italian private equity; fundraising remained low and exits were few and far between – though stuttering deal volume was punctuated by a handful of large buyouts, boosting deal value. But it wasn’t all bad. Amy King reports...
French mid-cap dealflow stages comeback
French mid-market
Saga expected to raise £3bn in IPO
Saga, part of Acromas, backed by CVC, Charterhouse and Permira, has hired STJ Advisors in advance of an expected ТЃ3bn public offering.
G4S rejects £1.55bn offer for subsidiary from Charterhouse
The board of G4S has rejected a "highly opportunistic" £1.55bn offer from Charterhouse for its cash solutions unit.