SoftBank Climbs on Plan to Borrow $4.5 Billion Via Telecom Stock

SoftBank Climbs on Plan to Borrow $4.5 Billion Via Telecom Stock

SoftBank Group Corp.’s stock climbed after it unveiled plans to borrow as much as 500 billion yen ($4.5 billion) by putting up shares of its Japanese telecom unit as collateral, raising capital for the investment giant’s operations. The money for the two-year loan,...
Public-to-private: Private equity on the hunt for new value

Public-to-private: Private equity on the hunt for new value

European public-to-private (P2P) deal activity has surged over the past decade, with take-private deals becoming a key generator of deal flow for private equity (PE) firms as they seek to deploy capital. Data from Mergermarket shows that European PE-backed P2P total...
Paris outstrips London as Europe’s venture capital hub

Paris outstrips London as Europe’s venture capital hub

Paris has emerged as Europe’s main venture capital hub in the last decade, overtaking London, according to a report by Invest Europe and the European Investment Fund. The Île-de-France region received €3.1bn in investments between 2007 and 2015, compared with the...
KKR Closes $1.3 Billion Global Impact Fund

KKR Closes $1.3 Billion Global Impact Fund

KKR, a leading global investment firm, today announced the final closing of KKR Global Impact Fund SCSp (“KKR Global Impact” or the “Fund”), a $1.3 billion fund dedicated to investment opportunities in companies whose core business models provide commercial solutions...
Apax Crawls Toward $10.5 Billion Target for Latest Buyout Fund

Apax Crawls Toward $10.5 Billion Target for Latest Buyout Fund

Apax Partners is inching toward its latest fund raising goal of $10.5 billion. The private equity firm, which began raising in the second quarter of last year, has so far collected more than $9 billion for its 10th flagship fund, people with knowledge of the situation...