by Sebastian | Dec 28, 2022 | News, UKPEC
Private equity firm General Atlantic’s BeyondNetZero said it has secured $3.5bn to back companies that can help in the world’s fight against global warming. General Atlantic raised $2.6 billion from institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds...
by Sebastian | Dec 20, 2022 | News, UKPEC
Freight management services group Xpediator surged on Tuesday after a consortium including largest shareholder Cogels – the investment vehicle of former chief executive Stephen Blyth – made an indicative proposal of 42p a share in cash to take the business...
by Sebastian | Sep 27, 2022 | News, UKPEC
Biffa Plc has agreed to be taken over by private equity firm Energy Capital Partners (ECP) in a deal valuing the British waste-management company at about $1.41bn. The 410 pence per share deal, which comes nearly three months after Biffa first announced that it was...
by Sebastian | Sep 23, 2022 | News, UKPEC
Mawer and M&G say £9.5bn bid from French group undervalues UK software developer A top-10 investor in Aveva plans to reject Schneider Electric’s £9.5bn takeover of the software developer on the grounds that it represents an “opportunistic bid” that undervalues the...
by Sebastian | Sep 21, 2022 | News, UKPEC
M&G announces partnership with New Ireland Assurance to offer two new and innovative funds for Irish investors Known as Future+, the new range of multi-asset smoothed funds aims to offer low-volatility and competitive market returns to European investors. Future+...
by Sebastian | Sep 20, 2022 | News, UKPEC
Blackstone has agreed a £300m deal to sell Butlin’s back to one of the families that it bought the UK resort group from last year The ownership of Butlin’s has changed hands to a newly formed company backed by the Harris family, part of former owner Bourne Leisure....