Matthieu Favas
Matthieu Favas is the editor of Agri Investor. He was previously the web editor of Infrastructure Investor, where he started in 2013 after a year as a reporter at Private Equity International. Prior to joining PEI he spent four years in the wine industry in London, Spain and Mongolia.
The London-listed vehicle, which has £200m invested in Hg’s recently-closed Fund VII, has written down 4 companies in the 6 months to July 2013.
Sir Charles Allen, the former chairman of EMI and CEO of ITV, joins at a time when the Danish group's private equity owners are gearing the business up again for an IPO.
The mid-market firm has started to rationalise its French operations ahead of an expected fundraise this autumn.
Amid slower growth and toughening competition in a number of emerging markets, Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Market Group, explains why developing economies continue to offer a wealth of opportunities for private equity.
The buyout firms have sold Arsys to trade player United Internet for €160m, making roughly 1.5x on the deal thanks to prior dividend recaps.
The acquisition of Danish-based e-conomic, the second online business services company bought by Hg this summer, comes a few months after the UK firm closed its latest buyout fund on £2bn.
The US firm and the Canadian pension system will hold an equal stake in Pennsylvania-based CPG, trumping rivals in an auction that had reportedly drawn interest from Warburg Pincus, Berkshire Partners and TPG.
The energy-focused firm has agreed to buy LLX, a logistics business owned by Brazil’s Eike Batista, as the country’s former richest man looks to divest parts of his embattled EBX conglomerate.
The appointment of David Robins, currently chairman of broker Oriel Securities, comes as the fund of funds starts to diversify its private equity investments.
The firm has bought German-based Alloheim from STAR Capital using its European fund - and it continues to bolster its senior operating team, most recently with the addition of a former P&G executive.