Shares in Dr. Martens were down 11 per cent on Thursday afternoon after its largest shareholder sold a stake in the footwear giant. Private equity group Permira Funds sold 65m shares, a year after it brought the bootmaker to market. Permira, via its Luxembourg-based...
The value of private equity-backed deals in the East Midlands was at its highest level for six-years in 2021, according to new research. Provisional data from the Centre for Private Equity and MBO Research (CMBOR) said that total deal value for the region stood at...
It’s private equity to the rescue. French big-box retailer Auchan couldn’t quite make a good enough offer to buy peer Carrefour SA when it tried a takeover last year. Now buyout firms may be on hand to juice up the bid. Securing a deal would involve the buyers making...
General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, led a €254m Series E funding round to fund PayFit in a record-breaking amount for a French human resources (HR) startup. Now valued at €1.82bn, the startup aims to strengthen its position in its current markets....
The secondary market, where buyers and sellers trade existing interests in private equity funds and their portfolio companies, has grown to almost $90bn, a six-fold increase during the past decade. Private equity has been growing as an asset class with total assets... 