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.
Triton’s acquisition of Alpine-Energie will help the company’s former owner, Spanish construction group FCC, offload part of its €7.9bn debt load.
The deal provides a healthy exit for Advent International, which took the home goods insurer private in 2007 for £523.9m.
The firm, which held a €10.5bn first close on its latest fund last month, eyes a set of businesses that generates an aggregate €530m in annual sales.
A £143m valuation uplift for Permira-backed ProSiebenSat, Arysta Life Sciences and Hugo Boss was among the drivers behind SVG's positive half-yearly results.
Former equity capital markets chief Alasdair Warren will replace James McMurdo, who left to become Deutsche Bank's CEO for Australia and New Zealand.
The Nordic firm has reshuffled its board of directors, less than two months after it held a €206m second close on its latest buyout fund.
The issue of new shares by Tikehau’s 'Salvepar' vehicle, which makes minority investments in SMEs, comes a few months after the French investment manager bought a stake in UK-based Duke Street.
The deal, which values the payments business at $95m, is the emerging markets firm’s fifth in the sector since 2010.
Richard Favier, former head of restructuring at the UK’s Pension Protection Fund, will help the Jon Moulton-led firm deal with pension deficits at portfolio companies.
Returning confidence and greater availability of debt financing has allowed deal value to jump 36% from the previous quarter – in sharp contrast to trade valuations, now at their lowest in 4 years.