Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has announced a management succession plan that names Matthew Frankel and Michael Weinberg as managing partners. LLCP was founded in 1984 and its co-founders – Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman
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Bitė, a mobile, broadband and pay-TV firm in the Baltic region, and a portfolio company of Providence Private Equity, priced a dividend recap and refinancing of its whole capital structure this week, funded by a
High yield bond issuance is coming thick and fast in Europe, with primary supply not limited to straightforward Covid-proof credits, but also coming from highly levered firms feeling the pinch of the pandemic restrictions.
Axiom Alternative Investments has launched a new long/short global high yield fund, following the hire of Gilles Frisch as a portfolio manager last year, targeting the opportunities that will come through at the end of
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg launched Europe’s first sovereign sustainability bond to big demand on Monday morning, allowing the sovereign to bring the spread in by 6bp during pricing.
The groups investment portfolio in Europe makes up 15.5% of the pension plan’s total investments
Studio City Finance restructured its debt portfolio with a $1bn bond sale on Wednesday.
Philippine issuers are flooding the market with dollar bonds, giving investors an unprecedented selection of deals from the country. There is plenty more to come. Morgan Davis reports.
The firm, launched last year, is investing between €25m and €150m in pan-European mid-market businesses
Goldman Sachs Growth has backed an $80m series-D funding round for Germany-based enterprise architecture software LeanIX.
Pharmaceutical packaging manufacturer Grafiche Favillini, a portfolio company of private equity firm Arcadia, has wholly acquired Idea Grafica from the founding Pettinari family.
Open-source enterprise software infrastructure company Suse, a portfolio company of EQT, has acquired California-based Rancher Labs.
HIG Capital has acquired a controlling stake in Italian IT specialist Project Informatica from founder and CEO Alberto Ghisleni, who will reinvest alongside the GP and continue to lead the company.
Insurance marketplace PolicyBazaar has reportedly raised a further $130m from SoftBank, despite the chief executive believing the previous expansion efforts led by the mega investor were a "mistake."
Concirrus, an insurance software developer, has raised another $6m in funding, hot on the heels of its recent $20m Series B round.
Keensight Capital has hired Stéphane Jamin as director for its portfolio performance team.
Tech-focused private equity major Silver Lake has agreed to buy French cloud-based payroll and HR software business Silae from the company's founding shareholders.
The pension system has struggled to access co-investment deals through its $6.5bn private equity portfolio
