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Private equity

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    PGIM Ltd
    Private equity’s ‘layered leverage’ needs more scrutiny, says PGIM chief

    Head of $1.3tn asset manager says complex forms of debt could ‘accelerate things on the downside’

    David Hunt, PGIM president and CEO
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    General Atlantic LLC
    General Atlantic nears £800mn deal to buy UK’s Learning Technologies

    London-based group is ‘minded to recommend’ the 100p per share offer from private equity group

    General Atlantic logo
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Thames Water’s liquidity dries up Premium content

    Plus, Citi leans into private credit with new $25bn partnership and a huge dividend recapitalisation tests the market

    Thames Water vehicles
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Workers getting share in windfalls as private equity firms soften image

    GeoStabilization employees to get $75mn of proceeds from sale of company by KKR as part of growing trend

    KKR logo on a trading screen
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Private equity tests markets with a mammoth debt-fuelled dividend

    Company backed by investors including Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Hellman & Friedman prepares €4.4bn dividend

    Jeff Amaral of Safelite Auto Glass replaces the broken windshield of a vehicle parked streetside in New Bedford
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Accountancy
    UK watchdog tells audit firms to report approaches from private equity

    Financial Reporting Council says outside investment into the sector would bring risks

    Richard Moriarty
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Citigroup Inc
    Citigroup strikes $25bn deal with Apollo to launch private credit venture

    US lender seeks to win back business from asset managers that have targeted traditional banks’ most lucrative clients

    Vis Raghavan
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Private equity just smashed another record

    Recapping and backslapping

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    BC Partners Ltd
    BC Partners in exclusive talks to invest in EuroLeague basketball competition

    Private equity firm edges out rivals including General Atlantic and Saudi Arabia’s SURJ

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Markets InsightHuw van Steenis
    The barbell tolls for fixed income investing

    A trend long associated with equity investing is now playing out in the bond markets

    Young athlete getting ready for weight lifting training with a barbell.
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    EQT Partners AB
    EQT plans to sell stake in €15bn software group IFS

    Private equity firms have been forced to sell slices of their businesses as higher interest rates have hit the IPO market

    Montage shows woman looking at IFS logo on laptop with EQT logo in the background
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    LexAccounting & Consulting services
    Private equity roll-ups of accounting firms could run into trouble Premium content

    Buyout groups can help revamp the profession, but there will also be unintended consequences

    The exterior of the Grant Thornton building in Dublin
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Lex
    Private equity’s tax tussle needs pragmatism, not intellectual purity Premium content

    The key question is at what level carry should be taxed and what conditions are required to earn that benefit

    UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Private credit
    The dodgy details of private equity’s ‘dividend recaps’

    The impact of leveraged payouts examined

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    PE firm’s many roles attract scrutiny as car parts maker seeks bankruptcy

    Clearlake Capital bought, sold and continued to own Wheel Pros even as it collapsed under $1.7bn in debt

    Clearlake Headquarters at 233 Wilshire Blvd, Wheel pros logo
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Leveraged loans
    Private equity firms seek new terms to increase payouts on deals

    Lenders are pushing back on ‘high-water ebitda’ provisions and most have been excised from terms

    KKR logo on a screen
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Gillian Tett
    Life insurance becomes less boring with creative financial engineering

    As the Fed cuts rates, markets are rallying — but there are long-term risks from experiments

    Illustration of an umbrella with its handle resembling a snake but with the snake’s body made up of coins
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Axel Springer SE
    Axel Springer agrees €13.5bn break-up deal with KKR

    Media division will be split from classifieds business

    Mathias Döpfner, Axel Springer’s chief executive
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Private equity’s new mantra Premium content

    Plus, one of the billionaire Issa brothers steps back from Asda and the antitrust case rattling American fashion houses

    Tristan Tully, left, speaks at the IPEM conference in Paris this week
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Lex
    Private equity is doing badly — however you measure it Premium content

    Investors desperate to get cash back are putting pressure on funds to capitulate on sales

    Handing money over
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Grant Thornton UK LLP
    Grant Thornton US among shortlist of bidders for UK franchise

    Buyout firms EQT and Permira also in running for mid-tier accountancy firm

    City of London skyline
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Bausch Health Companies
    Private equity suitors line up for Bausch + Lomb eyecare auction

    Sale process comes after tensions between investors and creditors over plan to split from Bausch Health

    Boxes of Ocuvite lined up on a shelf, featuring a depiction of an eye on the front
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Virtus and BondBloxx join SSGA in private credit ETF queue

    All three managers have filed for private markets retail funds within days of each other

    A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Due Diligence
    When private equity is the friendly choice Premium content

    Plus, the Nevada court battle over the future of Rupert Murdoch’s empire and how a corporate lawyer won gold at the Paralympics

    Person looks at a laboratory instrument
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Sport
    Sports group backed by Saudi wealth fund seeks stake in European basketball

    EuroLeague is looking to sell minority holding worth €1bn, but PIF’s SURJ firm faces competition from BC Partners

    A EuroLeague quarter-final between FC Barcelona and Olympiakos Piraeus in Barcelona earlier this year
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