James Taylor
Merrill Lynch has joined forces with Pacific Equity Partners to make its first foray into the Australasian private equity market, with a $659 million offer for credit checking company Veda Advantage.
Bear Stearns Private Equity, a listed fund of funds, hopes to raise another $300 million through a placement on the London Stock Exchange.
NBGI Private Equity has benefited from Duke Street’s attempts to consolidate the chilled foods sector, making a sizeable return on the £22 million sale of Brambles Foods to Food Partners.
Merrill Lynch has joined forces with Pacific Equity Partners to make its first foray into the Australasian private equity market, with a $659 million offer for credit checking company Veda Advantage.
Bear Stearns Private Equity, a listed fund of funds, hopes to raise another $300 million through a placement on the London Stock Exchange.
NBGI Private Equity has benefited from Duke Street’s attempts to consolidate the chilled foods sector, making a sizeable return on the £22 million sale of Brambles Foods to Food Partners.
UK-based secondaries specialist Coller Capital has bought a 45 percent stake in a new independent venture fund launched by Shell, which will develop non-proprietary technologies.
The Bank of Scotland has recruited private equity industry veteran Paul Brooks as a non-executive director to advise its integrated finance team.
A newspaper study of 30 recent large buyouts in the UK has revealed that the companies involved have actually increased staff numbers by 25 percent under private equity ownership, contrary to recent trade union claims.
UK-based secondaries specialist Coller Capital has bought a 45 percent stake in a new independent venture fund launched by Shell, which will develop non-proprietary technologies.