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 26, 2020 | News, PPEC
Warsaw-based private equity firm Abris Capital Partners has bought the entire shareholding in Scanmed, a Polish healthcare network operator, for €76m. The purchase, made by the Abris CEE Mid-Market III LP fund, is for 100% of the shares in Scanmed from the seller Life...
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 10, 2020 | News, PPEC
Sazka Group and its owner KKCG said on Tuesday funds connected to private equity firm Apollo Global Management had agreed to invest 500 million euros ($591 million) in the Czech-based lottery group. The investment will be made into Sazka Entertainment, a new...
by Sebastian | Nov 1, 2020 | News, PPEC
John Grayken, a US private equity entrepreneur, is dubbed “the executioner from Texas” by the German press. In South Korea, his firm, Lone Star, is known as meoktwi — eat-and-run capital. Lone Star is among the buyout giants now circling ailing British firms. Last...
by Sebastian | Nov 1, 2020 | News, PPEC
Poland’s biggest publicly-traded private equity company MCI Capital SA is hoping that the country’s recent record initial public offering, for online selling platform Allegro.eu SA, will be a boon for the flourishing e-commerce industry. The fund seeks to sell a stake...
