Toby Mitchenall
The oldest buyout firm in France will go to market in January to raise the successor to its €150m small-cap fund raised in 2006. Meanwhile, its latest mid-market fund, reportedly targeting €1.2bn, will close before the end of the year.
Goldman Sachs, Coller Capital and Lexington Partners are reportedly among the groups considering bids for Lehman Brothers’ investments in US and European private equity funds.
The Spanish fund of fund manager will next year raise a fund that for the first time will have a special situations component. In September the firm increased to 32 its headcount with eight new hires.
The fund of funds manager is looking to close its debut real estate fund on its €200m hard cap by the end of 2008. The firm is also pencilling in 2009 for the launch of its next buyout fund.
TPG, Alchemy Partners and Permira have all been linked with a possible deal for debt related to Icelandic investor Baugur’s UK retail investments, which include House of Fraser, Debenhams and the iconic toy store, Hamleys.
The C$52bn Canadian pension plan with an in-house private equity arm has followed in the footsteps of the Ontario’s Teachers’ Pension Plan and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board by crossing the pond to source deals.
The C$52bn Canadian pension plan with an in-house private equity arm has followed in the footsteps of Ontario Teachers’ and the CPPIB by crossing the pond to source deals.
The mid-market buyout firm has agreed to a refinancing package – increasingly rare given credit dislocation – for sportswear brand Odlo on terms ‘very similar’ to the senior debt agreement put in place at the time of its original acquisition in 2006.
Along with those of Stanford and British Columbia, Harvard University’s $37bn endowment has scored top marks for sustainable investment. Harvard's endowment, an active private equity LP, returned 8.6 percent for the fiscal year ended 30 June.
The global mid-market buyout group has upped its investments in buyout and infrastructure deals, despite a roughly 40 percent fall in the total value of its investments over the past five months. The firm’s realisations also slowed significantly.
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