by Sebastian | Nov 24, 2020 | DPEC, GPEC, News
Germany’s elite soccer body has attracted fresh private equity interest in its overseas media rights, as cash-hungry European leagues explore ways to unlock value from the world’s most popular sport. Advent International and BC Partners are among suitors that have...
by Sebastian | 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 Sebastian | Nov 18, 2020 | DPEC, GPEC, News
The German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse said on Tuesday it would acquire an 80% stake in Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) for about $1.8 billion, the latest in a flurry of deals to sweep across the exchange industry. It makes good on a promise by...
by Sebastian | Nov 17, 2020 | DPEC, GPEC, News, UKPEC
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will this week vie with German media group Bertelsmann to buy Simon & Schuster in an auction that has become a battle for scale between two of the world’s biggest book publishers. ViacomCBS is expecting final bids for its Simon &...
by Sebastian | Nov 9, 2020 | DPEC, GPEC, News
Deutsche Bank rejected a request by the European Central Bank to suspend key parts of its leveraged finance operations over concerns that Germany’s largest lender was not properly monitoring risk in that area, according to people familiar with the matter. The...
by Sebastian | Nov 8, 2020 | DPEC, GPEC, News, UKPEC
Buy-out funds are weighing bids for the UK’s biggest nightclub operator after the pandemic forced the company into an emergency sale. Private equity firms Greybull Capital and Aurelius have been circling Deltic Group ever since it hired accountancy firm BDO to find a...