Jonn Elledge
The National Pension Reserve Fund intends to allocate 8 percent of its assets to European and North American private equity funds by 2010.
The Carlyle Group is teaming up with Robert L. Johnson, one of the US’ best known black entrepreneurs.
The buyout firm has made a 178p per share bid for Inventive Leisure, the AIM-listed owner of the UK vodka bar chain.
The French pension manager’s €1.5 billion allocation will be its first move into the asset class
The Paris- and Boston-based firms are acquiring Belgium’s VCST Industrial Products for an undisclosed price.
The central European buyout firm has paid PLN1.6 billion to buy Aster City Cable, the Polish telecoms company it sold in 2004.
The newly-created private equity firm, Panmure Capital, will target late stage pre-IPO funding opportunities.
The Nordic buyout firm has sold the Swedish television, internet and telephone company Com Hem to the The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners.
Sagard has acquired French connector company Souriau from the private equity arm of the AXA Group.
Tom Hicks, a retired giant of the global private equity fund investment industry, is back doing buyouts – this time with his own money. By Jonn Elledge.