The target of a £1bn unsolicited bid from HarbourVest, said it is in ‘detailed’ talks with the consortium just days before HarbourVest’s first close deadline.
1 min read · 03 October 2016
The global investment firm has acquired stakes in a fund that invested in Krispy Kreme UK from Deutsche Bank, a UK pension fund and a Swiss insurer.
2 min read · 27 September 2016
The direct secondaries firm first acquired a stake in d.light through its May purchase of Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s India portfolio.
2 min read · 25 September 2016
SVG’s second-largest shareholder says it is ‘supportive of the SVG management’ as the UK private equity investor fends off an unsolicited bid from US rival HarbourVest Partners.
2 min read · 22 September 2016
The firm’s listed fund of funds also sold a portfolio of 34 tail-end buyout stakes worth £33m in the first half of the year, according to its annual report.
2 min read · 20 September 2016
The investment bank has agreed to acquire stakes held in Partners’ 2007-vintage secondaries fund in a deal expected to close by the end of September.
1 min read · 19 September 2016
The London-listed private equity investor urged shareholders to take no action on HarbourVest Partners’ £1bn bid, saying the 650p-a-share final offer ‘undervalues the company’.
2 min read · 16 September 2016
The investment manager wants to sell the €1bn vehicle before the end of the year and a new structure will be created to manage the portfolio.
1 min read · 15 September 2016
The deal closed around six months after a board member at the US pension expressed scepticism about selling stakes on the secondaries market.
2 min read · 14 September 2016
The secondaries firm acquired a 24% stake in the UK private equity firm through its 2006-vintage $4.8bn Coller International Partners V fund.
2 min read · 13 September 2016
