UK investors’ sentiment worsens over pandemic and Brexit – survey
The outlook for the next two years is negative for 70% of investors and business leaders interviewed
The outlook for the next two years is negative for 70% of investors and business leaders interviewed
Transaction with the Japanese electronics and technology company NEC is expected to close in April 2021
Japan-headquartered NEC Corporation has wholly acquired Switzerland-based banking software platform Avaloq from existing shareholders, including Warburg Pincus, in a deal valuing the fintech company at CHF 2.05bn.
Norvestor has sold its stake in wireless network service Aptilo Networks to listed Swedish tech company Enea for SEK 92m (€8.8m).
Windjammer Capital has agreed to sell Advanced Instruments to Patricia Industries, a subsidiary of industrial holding company Investor AB, at an enterprise value of $780 million. Windjammer acquired Advanced Instruments from its founding family in
KKR has followed private equity peer Silver Lake in picking up a stake in the retail arm of India's Reliance Industries, leading a line of buyout houses scrambling to get in on backing the business.
Following a dramatic drop in exit activity in Q2, early figures from the third quarter suggest that very few GPs will be in sell mode for the rest of year. Katharine Hidalgo reports
European software and tech private equity specialist Hg has scored an exit of UK insurance intermediary A-Plan Group to international trade buyer Howden.
Peak Rock Capital has acquired Halo Foods, a manufacturer of bars and snacks, in partnership with the company’s management team. Halo was acquired from Nimbus, a Dutch private equity firm. Halo’s products include cereal bars,
Blue Sage Capital has held a final, oversubscribed, and above target closing of its third fund, Blue Sage Capital III LP, with capital of $300 million. Blue Sage’s earlier fund closed in December 2012 with
The deputy governor of the BoE Sam Woods said that the UK would return to a more ‘British-style’ of regulation after the transition period
European life sciences investor Medicxi has hit a €200m final close for its debut secondaries fund amid using the vehicle to pick up six companies from one of the firm's previous funds.
Posted by Hal S. Scott (Harvard Law School) and John Gulliver (Program on International Financial Systems), on Monday, September 21, 2020 Editor's Note: Hal S. Scott is the Emeritus Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems
Polaris and AAC Capital have sold their stakes in Danish baby products retailer BabySam to another retailer, Alt Til Barnet, according to local press reports.
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) has hired Heather Mosbacher Reiner as a managing director in the firm’s financial sponsor coverage group. Ms. Reiner will be based in New York City. Ms. Reiner has more
Houlihan Lokey (HL) has hired Richard Hoh as a managing director in its industrials group. Mr. Hoh will be part of the firm’s industrial technology subsector team, focusing primarily on electronic components as well as
Sutter Hill Capital is celebrating an astronomical return on its investment in cloud data warehousing business Snowflake after it sealed the biggest software IPO in history at an $80bn-plus valuation.
The Stephens Group has promoted Rob Dickinson and Jens Talbert to Senior Associate. “We are pleased to recognize Jens’ and Rob’s hard work and efforts with promotions,” said Witt Stephens, Chairman and CEO of The
