Doughty Hanson & Co Real Estate, one of Europe’s leading private equity real estate investors, has sold Old George Mall (pictured) in Salisbury to a pension fund client of Orchard Street Investment Management LLP, for over GBP80 million. Old George Mall comprises 137,000 square foot of retail space and
Parthenon Capital Partners and Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) have entered into a definitive agreement for Parthenon Capital Partners to acquire Wells Fargo’s HD Vest Financial Services business. Following the transaction, HD Vest’s existing management team, led by Roger Ochs, will continue to operate the business. Founded in 1983 and
David Miller, Partner at Cheviot Asset Management, believes that whilst austerity measures have been passed, this will not do much to soothe the nerves of investors, who will still be worried about how Greek voters will cooperate with the plans… Rational investors quite rightly believe that Germany will use its
IPO proceeds in the United States surpassed USD10 billion for the third consecutive quarter, signaling the ongoing strength and attractiveness of the IPO market as an avenue to raise capital, according to US IPO Watch – a quarterly and annual analysis of IPOs on US stock exchanges by PwC US.
AXA Private Equity, a leading European diversified private equity firm, announces it has signed an agreement with Barclays for the acquisition of a USD740m (GBP460m) portfolio of limited partnership interests and co-investments in private equity buyout funds. The portfolio does not include any investments managed by Barclays Private Equity. The
The Catalan company Exea Empresarial, holding company of the Puig family represented by Altana, has partnered with Hervé Lesieur, the private equity fund Aurica and Banco Sabadell to acquire Laboratoires Dermatologiques d’Uriage. This acquisition will enable Exea Empresarial to consolidate the cosmetic brands portfolio of the Puig family, who already
As the economy slowly improves, private equity group leaders say they have money to spend and are actively seeking companies to acquire, according to a survey of private equity group leaders rby RSM McGladrey, a leading accounting and consulting firm in the US. "Just because you have cash in your
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has backed the management team of Bradford-based Driver Hire Investments Group Limited (Driver Hire), the franchised provider of temporary and permanent personnel to the logistics and distribution industries, to support its continued growth. Driver Hire, which was originally established in 1983, operates nationally through a
Dynamics Inc has closed an oversubscribed USD35 million Series B round of financing led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures. Dynamics launched its award-winning Card 2.0 technology last fall, and its products are currently in consumer trials with several top multinational payment card issuers. Dynamics will use the funding to
More than two thirds (68%) of Private Equity houses plan to invest in the UK Financial Services (FS) market in the coming year, according to a Grant Thornton report called "Where is the Smart Money Going in Financial Services?" However, in the survey of the 40 leading private equity investors,
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