Private equity firm BC Partners is considering raising its biggest-ever fund as early as next year, people familiar with the matter said. The London-based firm has held preliminary talks with investors about raising about 8.5 billion euros ($9.4 billion) for its 11th...
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...
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,...
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...
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... 