Jenny Bollen

Private equity houses have bucked the consensus that leverage ratios will rise in 2007 as 40 percent predict a decrease.

Change Capital Partners has become the controlling shareholder in a company formed from the merger of four Spanish electrical goods retailers in its second deal in a week, and may raise its second fund in 2007.

Inflexion Private Equity has completed its second transaction in a month with a £12 million buyout of a software company, a week after it sold its £19.1 million venture capital trust.

Private equity houses have bucked the consensus that leverage ratios will rise in 2007 as 40 percent predict a decrease.

Global take privates in 2006 reached record values boosted by US companies worth almost $97 billion delisting.

Private equity houses have bucked the consensus that leverage ratios will rise in 2007 as 40 percent predict a decrease.

Change Capital Partners has become the controlling shareholder in a company formed from the merger of four Spanish electrical goods retailers in its second deal in a week, and may raise its second fund in 2007.

Inflexion Private Equity has completed its second transaction in a month with a £12 million buyout of a software company, a week after it sold its £19.1 million venture capital trust.

Change Capital Partners has become the controlling shareholder in a company formed from the merger of four Spanish electrical goods retailers in its second deal in a week, and may raise its second fund in 2007.

Global take privates in 2006 reached record values boosted by US companies worth almost $97 billion delisting.