Mutual insurer Macif steps up efforts to buy Aviva’s French arm

Mutual insurer Macif steps up efforts to buy Aviva’s French arm

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...
KKR Is Said to Prepare for New European Buyout Fund

KKR Is Said to Prepare for New European Buyout Fund

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...
Antin Infrastructure to buy Italian pharmacy network Hippocrates

Antin Infrastructure to buy Italian pharmacy network Hippocrates

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...