HarbourVest has acquired stakes in Ironbridge Fund II from Portfolio Advisors and a Portfolio Advisors’ joint venture with Singapore-based United Overseas Bank.
2 min read · 25 July 2014
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board has been on a secondaries selling spree this month, divesting stakes in BC Partners, Charterhouse Capital Partners and 3i.
2 min read · 22 July 2014
BC ‘s Fund VIII closed on €5.8bn in 2005 and recently sold cleaning product and insect control company Spotless Group for €940m.
2 min read · 17 July 2014
Approximately 75% of LPs agreed to sell their stakes in the firm’s 2000-vintage Fund II, while the remaining LPs opted to roll over into a new fund.
3 min read · 17 July 2014
Charterhouse’s CCP Fund IX raised €4bn in 2008 and invested in UK-based greeting card retailer Card Factory, which floated on the London Stock Exchange earlier this year.
3 min read · 15 July 2014
The companies include Aspiro, which owns Norwegian streaming service Wimp, Napatech, a Danish network adapter manufacturer and Eniram, a Finnish software provider.
1 min read · 14 July 2014
The assets in Macquarie’s €1.2bn European Infrastructure Fund III include a German gas transmission network operator and the Brussels and Copenhagen airports.
1 min read · 13 July 2014
Changing appetites for private equity among Australia’s superannuation funds is said to be fuelling secondaries dealflow in the Asia-Pacifc.
2 min read · 10 July 2014
3i Eurofund III raised €2.3bn in 1999 and invested into European mid-market companies, including Swiss transportation and service provider SR Technics.
1 min read · 10 July 2014
CPPIB has bought stakes in €4.31bn Apax Europe VI – whose portfolio includes fashion house Karl Lagerfeld – from Adveq, HarbourVest, Robeco and Pomona.
2 min read · 09 July 2014