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...
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...
Partners Group will pay c. €200 million for selected real estate assets of the Krakow-based Buma Group on behalf of its clients. Funds managed and/or advised by Partners Group will acquire nine newly built, largely occupied office buildings from Buma’s portfolio...
Goldman Sachs Group is betting on data centers. The New York-based firm’s infrastructure arm, part of its merchant bank, agreed to invest an initial $500 million in Global Compute Infrastructure LP, a platform helmed by Scott Peterson, the former chief investment...
Gazing out over the skyscrapers on the skyline, the head of Poland’s top e-commerce company is unfazed by Amazon’s imminent arrival as his business prepares for a record IPO. Instead, Frenchman Francois Nuyts, CEO of Allegro and himself a former Amazon... 