Toby Mitchenall
As buyout firms adapt to a low-leverage investment climate, research suggests that debt has never been the dominant driver of private equity returns.
The emerging markets bank is raising a ‘new and unique’ fund to stimulate the debt capital markets in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The listed private equity firm has sold its remaining stake in Dutch business Dockwise to a consortium of investors including Bain Capital’s credit arm, Sankaty.
The situation at PAI does not signify wider large cap woes, writes Toby Mitchenall.
As stakeholders discuss what to do with the firm’s suspended €3bn 2008 fund, Candover has lost control of laboratory business ALcontrol to GSO Capital.
Multiples paid for mid-market companies have been falling for two years, but buyout activity has yet to pick up, says a new study.
A bubbly stock market has generated a clutch of potential IPOs, but the window will not be open forever.
After a year in which almost half of them scaled back their allocations to listed private equity stocks, wealth managers in Europe are starting to look again.
Stephan Wilcke, who used to lead Apax Partners financial services investments in Europe, has been hired by the Treasury to run its safety net for risky bank assets.
Against a ‘fragile’ economic backdrop, the listed firm continues to sell assets and invest only in existing portfolio companies.