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Private equity (PE) investment activity in the Americas is positioned for a solid year, while markets in Europe and Asia Pacific tread water, according to the fourth annual edition of the bellwether report on the state of the industry released by Bain & Company.
The report also finds that North America enters 2013 with favourable winds at its back.
Private equity showed clear signs of strength in North America and Brazil, South America’s largest market, in 2012. Buyout deal value in North America was up 23 per cent in 2012, while deal activity in Europe and Asia Pacific fell.
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Private equity (PE) investment activity in the Americas is positioned for a solid year, while markets in Europe and Asia Pacific tread water, according to the fourth annual edition of the bellwether report on the state of the industry released by Bain & Company.
The report also finds that North America enters 2013 with favourable winds at its back.
Private equity showed clear signs of strength in North America and Brazil, South America’s largest market, in 2012. Buyout deal value in North America was up 23 per cent in 2012, while deal activity in Europe and Asia Pacific fell.
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Investment holding company Salvepar, which is 92 per cent owned by the Tikehau Group, has sold its entire stake in Lacroix for EUR2.1m.
Salvepar is listed on the Parsi stock exchange and conducts an active policy of minority and medium-term shareholding acquisitions in listed and non-listed companies.
Omnes Capital – formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity – has invested EUR4m in the Italian company Futuris via its Capenergie 2 fund. Additional investment of up to EUR10m is planned.
The Milan-based company – founded and developed by Rodolfo Danielli, former chief operating officer of Italcementi and EMEA director of Air Liquide – develops, builds and manages biomass-fired cogeneration plants.
Futuris SA aims to develop the equivalent of 54 MW of installed capacity between now and 2016, for a total investment of EUR220m. This development plan is based on the construction of 10 power stations within the framework of three
One of KRG Capital Partners’ Fund IV platform companies, Fort Dearborn Company, has completed the acquisition of FetterGroup’s paint and coating labels business.
KRG made its initial investment in Fort Dearborn Company – a supplier of cut and stack, pressure sensitive, roll-fed and shrink sleeve labels – in August 2010.
The acquisition of FetterGroup’s paint and coatings label business represents the 179th investment for KRG since its inception.
Alliance+, the Nordic cleaning business backed by Danish/Swedish mid-market private equity investor Polaris Private Equity, has completed its seventh add-on deal, acquiring Facila, a complementary Swedish business.
Alliance+ was formed by Polaris in 2009 through the simultaneous acquisition of Kølving & Thaning and Alliance Clean & Care – two cleaning service companies operating in Denmark.
Since then the company has made a number of add-on acquisitions, initially in Denmark. In 2012 Alliance+ reached a strategically important milestone with the acquisition of Sweden’s largest privately owned cleaning services company, Miljöteamet, which transformed the business into a pan-Nordic entity, making it the
Innovacom has invested in the capital of Green Communications during a fundraising round of EUR600,000.
This marks the first investment of its seed fund technocom2, dedicated to digital start-up companies having a strong technical component.
The seed fund technocom2 is financed by CDC Partners as part of the Fond National d’Amorcage which it manages for the French state in the programme of investment for the future together with strategic partners such as Alcatel-Lucent who will support Green Communications along with Innovacom’s management team.
Green Communications grew out of research carried out by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has appointed Hiro Shimizu and Sakae Suzuki as directors for KKR Japan.
Shimizu joined KKR Capital Markets from Goldman Sachs Japan, where he most recently served as managing director and head of the financial institutions group within the financing group.
Suzuki joins KKR Capstone from McKinsey, where he most recently served as a principal with particular expertise in telecom, media and technology, and operations.
In their new roles, Shimizu and Suzuki will work alongside KKR’s team in Tokyo led by Shusaku Minoda, managing director and chief executive officer of KKR Japan. This increases KKR Japan’s team to
CVC Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has appointed Eric Daniels to its global financial institutions advisory board.
Daniels’ (pictured) appointment is effective immediately.
Daniels, who is based in the UK, was formerly group chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to this, he was group chief executive of Lloyds TSB, a position he took up in June 2003. Daniels joined Lloyds in 2001, when he was appointed to the board as group executive director with responsibility for the retail banking division. He began his career with Citibank (Citigroup today) where he spent 25 years and held a number
AXA Private Equity has arranged a EUR220m unitranche facility for the acquisition of IPH by PAI Partners from Investcorp.
The deal represents the largest unitranche financing in Europe to date.
IPH is a distributor of industrial supplies in Europe. Founded in 1987 and historically based in Lyon, France, IPH provides its products and services through a multibrand, multi-specialist and multi-channel network. IPH is active in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Romania, with approximately 3,000 employees and revenues of approx. EUR900m in 2011.
Olivier Berment (pictured), co-head of private debt and managing director at AXA Private Equity, says:
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