by Sebastian | Nov 10, 2020 | News, UKPEC
Schroders said on Tuesday it aims to raise 250 million pounds by floating its new British Opportunities Trust fund next month that will inject equity into high growth companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 and other economic factors were having a dramatic...
by Sebastian | Nov 9, 2020 | News, UKPEC
SoftBank Group Corp said on Monday it spent 139.3 billion yen ($1.35 billion) repurchasing almost 20 million shares in October, part of a record buyback plan that has pushed the group’s share price to near two-decade highs. The repurchases represent a marked...
by Sebastian | Nov 9, 2020 | News, UKPEC
Jonathan Blake was only 32 years old at the time, but the meeting the lawyer held with a senior British Treasury minister in 1987 has helped create more millionaires than the UK’s National Lottery. At issue was a complex structure that Mr Blake had designed to allow...
by Sebastian | Nov 8, 2020 | DPEC, GPEC, News, UKPEC
Buy-out funds are weighing bids for the UK’s biggest nightclub operator after the pandemic forced the company into an emergency sale. Private equity firms Greybull Capital and Aurelius have been circling Deltic Group ever since it hired accountancy firm BDO to find a...
by Sebastian | Nov 7, 2020 | News, UKPEC
A group of Championship clubs are urging the EFL to sell a stake in their three divisions to private equity in an attempt to safeguard their future. Sportsmail has learned that an alliance of six clubs are working with American investment bank JP Morgan to drive...
by Sebastian | Nov 7, 2020 | News, UKPEC
Graphcore Ltd. is said to be close to raising new funds, benefiting from investor interest in companies that focus on cutting-edge semiconductors, according to people familiar with matter. U.K.-based Graphcore designs chips that are used to run artificial intelligence...
