by Sebastian | Aug 4, 2021 | News
Strategic Value Partners and its affiliates (SVP Global), a global investment firm focused on distressed debt, event-driven investments, special situations and private equity opportunities, has held the successful final closing of Strategic Value Special Situations...
by Sebastian | Aug 4, 2021 | News
Coller Capital and Ping An Overseas Holdings has closed one of the world’s largest private credit secondaries transactions for a credit portfolio managed by Ping An, together with its subsidiaries – the main offshore investment and asset management platform of Ping An...
by Sebastian | Aug 3, 2021 | News
Over the past year bankers and lawyers who arrange mergers between companies have been working overtime as private-equity firms buy up companies listed on stock exchanges at an unprecedented rate. Buyout groups have announced 6,298 deals around the world since the...
by Sebastian | Aug 3, 2021 | News
Private equity investment in the UK has risen to its highest level in five years, as investors gained a renewed sense of confidence and vendors brought their assets to market – according to new analysis from KPMG. KPMG’s latest study of UK transactions involving...
by Sebastian | Aug 3, 2021 | News
Jobs are under threat at the British engineering firm Meggitt after it agreed a £6.3bn takeover deal from US rival Parker Hannifin, in the latest approach for a UK-listed company from an overseas buyer. The board of Meggitt, the FTSE 250 engineering company that...
by Sebastian | Aug 3, 2021 | News
$2.3bn deal with TA Associates is latest in a series of UK acquisitions by overseas buyers. The UK engineering firm Smiths Group has agreed to sell its medical division to the US private equity firm TA Associates in a $2.3bn (£1.7bn) deal, in the latest of a string of...