by Sebastian | Oct 23, 2020 | News, UKPEC
After two brothers from Blackburn in northern England beat the Wall Street behemoth Apollo in the race to buy Asda this month, they were riding high. Mohsin and Zuber Issa — who partnered with buyout group TDR Capital for the £6.8bn deal — were praised by chancellor...
by Sebastian | Oct 22, 2020 | News, UKPEC
SPACs have played a big role in reviving the US market for initial public offerings. So for the sluggish London IPO market, which hasn’t seen a single SPAC listing this year, a comeback would be a welcome development. When Mariposa Capital founder Martin...
by Sebastian | Oct 21, 2020 | News, UKPEC
Mid-market private equity firm Livingbridge has agreed to sell Ten10, a UK a quality engineering and software testing services provider, to Graphite Capital. The firms declined to provide financial details of the deal. Ten10 helps about 100 customers in the financial,...
by Sebastian | Oct 15, 2020 | News, UKPEC
Electric vehicle start-up Arrival said it has raised $118m from funds managed by BlackRock, the latest investor bet on new technology upending the auto sector. The investment values the UK-based manufacturer at around €3bn, according to a person familiar with the...
by Sebastian | Feb 12, 2020 | News, UKPEC
A battle over care home provider Four Seasons raises troubling questions for a sector Boris Johnson has pledged to fix At the Whitchurch Care Home, emergency buzzers went unanswered, some medicines were not dispensed and many of its frail and elderly residents had not...
by Sebastian | Dec 19, 2019 | BPEC, DPEC, FPEC, GPEC, IPEC, ITPEC, News, NPCD, PPEC, SPEC, UKPEC
The record-setting sums raised by Blackstone and other large private equity firms this year are unlikely to be matched in 2020, according to PitchBook. Private equity fundraising in North America and Europe hit another all-time high in 2019, driven in part by...
