by Sebastian | Nov 19, 2019 | BPEC, DPEC, FPEC, GPEC, IPEC, ITPEC, News, NPCD, PPEC, SPEC, UKPEC
Bankers and lawyers are chasing more business from cash-rich private equity clients Dealmakers at Rothschild, Goldman Sachs, Kirkland & Ellis and Linklaters dominate a list of the top advisers to private equity companies in Europe at a time when bankers and lawyers...
by Sebastian | Nov 19, 2019 | BPEC, DPEC, FPEC, GPEC, IPEC, ITPEC, News, NPCD, PPEC, SPEC, UKPEC
The company will invest $400m from its own balance sheet and as employees’ commitments The US giant buyout group KKR has closed its €5.8bn flagship fund focused on transactions in western Europe. European Fund V, launched in February 2018 with an initial €5bn target,...
by Sebastian | Nov 19, 2019 | BPEC, DPEC, FPEC, GPEC, IPEC, ITPEC, News, NPCD, PPEC, SPEC, UKPEC
UNCERTAIN TIMES IN EUROPE PUT A DAMPER ON PE MULTIPLES Concerns around Europe’s economic outlook are among the factors behind a drop-off in European multiples over the past two quarters, bringing an end to a three-year run of rising valuations, according to...
by Sebastian | Nov 19, 2019 | News, UKPEC
U.S. private equity firm Advent International said it had won approval from European Union, U.S. and Finnish regulators for its $5 billion acquisition of British defense company Cobham, as it continues to wait for U.K. approval. Britain has intervened in the deal on...
by Sebastian | Nov 19, 2019 | News, UKPEC
When Blackstone led a group of investors to buy a majority stake in the financial and risk unit of Thomson Reuters last year in a deal that valued the business at some $20 billion, including debt, it reminded many of the heady days of mega-buyouts in the lead-up to...
