The private equity owner of French car parts group Autodis has hired banks to resume plans for a share sale in Paris in a bid to take advantage of strong investor demand in the busiest-ever start to a year for stock listings, sources told Reuters. U.S. buyout firm...
Alta Partners, a leading early-stage healthcare investment firm, held the first and final closing of Alta Partners NextGen Fund III. Fund III was oversubscribed and has total capital of $275 million. The Alta team will continue its successful strategy of investing in...
Malaysia-based private-equity firm Creador, which primarily invests in South and Southeast Asia, plans to pitch its latest fund to investors starting next month, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citing a person familiar with the matter yesterday, WSJ said the...
The buyout giant Providence Equity Partners is leading a £300m race to buy Node4, one of Britain’s army of fast-growing IT services providers, in a deal that will net another big windfall for its founder. Sky News understands that Providence has emerged in...
Serie A’s €1.7 billion (US$2 billion) private equity deal with CVC, Advent and FSI could be about to collapse as seven of Italian soccer’s most powerful top-flight clubs are set to block the investment, according to Reuters. The global wire service has seen a letter...
