by Sebastian | Dec 17, 2020 | IPEC, News
Spanish soccer body La Liga has separated its digital services into a new company and is in talks with private equity groups CVC Capital Partners and Bruin Sports Capital over selling 60 per cent of the organisation. Investment in LaLiga Tech, which the Spanish league...
by Sebastian | 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 Sebastian | Nov 27, 2020 | IPEC, News, UKPEC
The Spanish banks BBVA and Sabadell have given up merger talks they confirmed less than two weeks ago because of disagreements over the pricing of the deal. Sabadell, which owns TSB in the UK, said it would now seek to “prioritise its Spanish domestic business”,...
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 | Oct 19, 2020 | DPEC, GPEC, IPEC, News
Spanish telecom giant Telefonica is readying an alliance with the private equity arm of German insurer Allianz to finance a 5 billion euro infrastructure investment in Germany, Spanish newspaper Expansion said on Monday. Telefonica and Allianz aim to create a joint...
by Sebastian | Oct 16, 2020 | IPEC, News
Macquarie raised approximately EUR730 million for the strategy via Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Fund exceeding its initial fundraising target of EUR500 million. An additional EUR425 million was raised to invest alongside the fund through separately managed accounts...
