A Loughborough-based software company is close to becoming more valuable than Sage Group, the FTSE-100 technology champion, as it finalises a deal to sell a stake to a Singaporean state investment fund. Sky News has learnt that The Access Group, which was founded in...
KKR has raised $1.1bn in its inaugural Asia credit fund that provides debt financing to companies, marking what the U.S. private equity firm said was one of the largest such first-time fundraisings in Asia Pacific. Private credit funds have gained traction in Asia in...
Covetrus Inc said on Wednesday it would be taken private by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) and TPG Capital in a deal valuing the animal-health focused software maker at $4bn. Investors of Covetrus, whose software is used by veterinarians to take their...
Swedish payments firm Klarna is in talks with investors to raise more money and has no plans to go public this year, Chief Executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski said in an interview two days after the firm laid off 700 staff. Klarna investors include Silver Lake,...
Italian companies are highly undercapitalized compared to other major European countries, with shareholders representing just 42 percent of the balance sheet structure in the economy – as opposed to the 50 percent weighting seen in Germany, France, Spain, and the UK.... 