Lawrence Aragon
UK mid-market firm Charterhouse Capital Partners is to acquire Tunstall Group in a secondary buyout deal with vendor Bridgepoint for £514m.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System continues to look for fresh talent. The $240 billion pension recently committed $150 million to Leading Edge Investment Advisors, a three-year-old San Francisco-based funds-of-funds firm that specializes in backing emerging managers, and $150 milllion to Quotient Investors in New York, a months-old quantitative equity management firm. Both firms tilt […]
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System continues to look for fresh talent. The $240 billion pension recently committed $150 million to Leading Edge Investment Advisors, a three-year-old San Francisco-based funds-of-funds firm that specializes in backing emerging managers, and $150 milllion to Quotient Investors in New York, a months-old quantitative equity management firm. Both firms tilt […]
Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity (MLGPE) has acquired Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH), the UK's largest owner of dental practices, from LGV Capital for an undisclosed amount, although reports put the price at somewhere between £250m and £300m.
CalPERS sells stake for between $1B and $1.5B to a syndicate of five firms The California Public Employees’ Retirement System earlier this month sold stakes in roughly 60 private equity funds, mainly mid-market buyout funds, whose average age—eight years—put them in the pension fund’s “mature” category. And more CalPERS-owned stakes may be coming onto the […]
CDC Group, the UK government-backed private equity emerging markets fund of funds investor, has committed almost US$1bn (€675m) to a new emerging markets infrastructure fund to be managed by Actis. CDC is committing capital of US$750m (€507.2m) to the Actis Infrastructure Fund 2 (AI2) and is also ceding infrastructure assets valued at about US$167m (€112.9m) […]
Mid-market buyout firms are poised to collect more money than ever from limited partners, but not every general partnership will share in the bounty.
Montagu Private Equity, the London-based mid-market firm, has sold its 18 months' investment in Open International, a Worcester, UK, located supplier of software for insurance brokers.
Qatar government buys UK specialist healthcare provider for £270m
HT Troplast sold to Arcapita for €775m