Hawaii is proving to be no paradise for private equity.
Barry Siadat has left Arsenal Capital to raise a fund focussed on global speciality chemicals.
The firm is taking steps to ensure it has energy and hedge fund strategies in place prior to going public.
The end of short-selling by hedge funds could be nigh, as market participants’ focus shifts from opportunistic buys to companies’ economic fundamentals.
The European buyout firm has teamed up with the security risk consultancy business’ former chairman as it looks to seal its first US deal since opening its New York office in February.
London-based Evans Randall and its longstanding real estate investment partner and financier, Bank of Scotland, are using the capital to expand the European Property Fund.
Colony Capital founder and chairman Tom Barrack has lined up more than $1 billion in equity to start buying distressed debt and property companies as the firm searches for the bottom of the market.
Terra Firma’s turnaround of the music company has run into further difficulties in the same month US bank Citi reportedly failed to sell on £2.4bn of EMI loans.
The bar code scanner company has agreed to be acquired by Honeywell International after being taken private for $398.5 million in December 2006.
Vermeer Capital, the turnaround firm, set up by seasoned veterans of French business and restructuring, has raised €75m for its first fund.