by Simon | Dec 14, 2020 | FPEC, News
BNP Paribas Asset Management has launched two new infrastructure debt funds totalling 1 billion through the BNP Paribas European Infrastructure Debt Fund II, which will target EUR500 million, and the BNP Paribas European Junior Infrastructure Debt Fund I, which will...
by Simon | Dec 12, 2020 | FPEC, News
Mutual insurer Groupe Macif has stepped up efforts to buy Aviva’s French arm in a deal worth about 3 billion euros after an Allianz-led consortium bowed out amid firm resistance from French unions and local partners, sources told Reuters. Groupe Macif has hired Credit...
by Simon | Dec 4, 2020 | BPEC, DPEC, FPEC, GPEC, IPEC, ITPEC, News, NPCD, PPEC, SPEC, UKPEC
After watching from the sidelines as a boom in the listing of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) reshaped U.S. capital markets, Europe is preparing to play catch up next year with around 10 such deals said to already be in the pipeline. SPACs are shell...
by Simon | Nov 21, 2020 | BPEC, DPEC, FPEC, GPEC, IPEC, ITPEC, News, NPCD, PPEC, SPEC, UKPEC
KKR & Co. is preparing to raise another European buyout fund just a year after its last one, having comfortably outspent rivals during the coronavirus pandemic, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.S. private equity firm is in the early stages of...
by Simon | Nov 16, 2020 | FPEC, ITPEC, News
Italian pharmacy network Hippocrates Holding said on Monday that private equity firm Antin Infrastructure Partners had agreed to take an 80% stake in the company. The pharmacy group short-listed four bidders in October for its network of pharmacies with the aim of...
by Simon | Nov 4, 2020 | FPEC, News
Paris-based private equity firm Eurazeo has sold its entire shareholding in the online marketplace company Farfetch. This disposal resulted in net proceeds of €90.4m, corresponding to a multiple of 4.1x cash-on-cash and an internal rate of return (IRR) of around 38%....
