HarbourVest-managed secondary funds together with HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited (HVPE), a closed-end investment company, will, through an acquisition vehicle, make a public offer for all bearer shares of Absolute Private Equity, Ltd (Absolute) currently in circulation. Absolute is an investment company incorporated in Switzerland and listed on SIX Swiss
Eurazeo and OFI Private Equity Capital have reached an agreement for the acquisition by Eurazeo of OFI Private Equity Capital, a NYSE Euronext-listed French investment company specialising in SME majority investments. Under the terms of the agreement, MACIF, Olivier Millet and the other main shareholders of OFI Private Equity
Summit Partners and TA Associates have signed definitive documentation to invest USD350 million to recapitalize online gaming platform specialist Bigpoint and position the company for continued strong global growth. “The investment by TA Associates and Summit Partners is a validation of Bigpoint’s leadership position within the gaming industry, and
Angelo, Gordon & Co’s Private Equity Group has partnered with the founders of Firebirds International, LLC (Firebirds) to acquire the company, which owns and operates 18 Firebirds Wood Fired Grill locations nationwide. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Firebirds – which features an American grill-focused menu – was founded
SPA Future Thinking has acquired the Munro Group, which incorporates FDS International and Maven Research, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, which follows the merger of SPA Market research and Future Thinking (formerly the Oxford Research Agency) in September 2010, makes SPA Future Thinking the UK’s leading independent market researcher,
Credit rating agency S&P has downgraded the outlook for US long term debt from stable to negative. They said there was a 1 in 3 chance that this would lead to downgrade of US debt from its current AAA-rating within 2 years. S&P’s Nikola Swann says: "More than two years
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has agreed a new three-year revolving loan facility with Cabot Financial, the consumer debt purchasing firm, which was acquired earlier this month by AnaCap Financial Partners ‘AnaCap’, the European private equity firm that specialises in the financial services sector. AnaCap will integrate Cabot Financial
Following confirmation of the AIFM Directive at the end of 2010, Jersey has announced that it is working to deliver a range of flexible options, including a fully AIFMD compliant regime and to retain existing complementary regimes for asset managers that have no wish to access EU institutional capital under
Arma Partners acted as exclusive financial adviser to Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) on its acquisition of a majority stake in leading web hosting provider UK2 Group (UK2), for GBP47m, in partnership with its management team. Established in 1997, UK2 has evolved into a leading international provider of domain
Private equity fund administrator Langham Hall has been appointed as the Guernsey administrator to Cubera VI, a Guernsey authorised closed-ended scheme which acts a secondary fund focusing on purchasing LP shares in Nordic buy-out funds. The advisor to the fund is Cubera Private Equity AS, a Nordic investment firm specialising
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