Candover Investments plc ('Candover') announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Candover Partners Limited, has today agreed the sale of Wood Mackenzie, to Charterhouse Capital Partners for an enterprise value of £553 million. The sale will generate proceeds of £36.2 million in total for...

21 Partners, the International private equity group, and Sirius Holding of Paolo Benini, founder of RGI Group, announce a voluntary public tender offer for RGI S.p.A., through their joint holding company Afrodite that owns 80,3% of Newco Diana, the vehicle responsible for the operation. The offer is subject to a threshold of...

The funds managed by CapMan and Ahlström Capital have signed an agreement according to which CapMan funds will sell 13% of the shares in Å&R Carton AB to Ahlström Capital. The partial exit does not have a significant impact on CapMan Plc’s result for 2009. Å&R Carton is one of Europe’s...

Palamon Capital Partners ("Palamon"), one of Europe’s leading mid market private equity firms, and G Square, a European private equity firm dedicated to investing in healthcare are pleased to announce they have completed a transaction with Grupo SAR (“the Company”). The Company is one of Spain’s...

Investors led by John Kanas announced that they have invested $900 million in a new depository institution that acquired the operations of BankUnited, FSB from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver. The investors include funds advised by The Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Centerbridge Partners and WL...

Barclays Private Equity Manchester has backed ATP International Group ("ATP"), the multi-national corporate travel specialist, in its £37 million (€39.4 million) purchase of 100 per cent of the share capital of Instone International Group ("Instone"), one of the world’s leading suppliers of business travel services to the...

Clipperton Finance, a leading European corporate finance boutique focused on the High Tech and Media industries, announced the closing of a €12m capital raising for Ercom. Ercom designs and manufactures innovative solutions dedicated to the testing and securitization of telecommunication networks. Alven Capital, OTC...

3i, an international leader in private equity, announces that Stephan Kruemmer, Group Partner and Managing Director of the German-speaking business, has decided to leave 3i for personal reasons with effect from 30 April 2009. Stephan, who joined 3i in 2005, successfully restructured and repositioned 3i’s business in the...

Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group today issued the following statement regarding the resolution of the New York Attorney General’s pension fund inquiry. "For the past two years, Carlyle has cooperated extensively and voluntarily with the New York Attorney General’s inquiry into...

Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group today named Nader H. Sultan Senior Advisor to Carlyle’s Middle East North Africa (MENA) team. Mr. Sultan will help identify investments, business opportunities and trends particularly in the energy sector in the Middle East and North Africa...

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. ("KKR"), a leading global alternative asset manager, today announced that KKR MENA Limited has been granted a license by the Dubai Financial Services Authority to operate from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Abdulla Al Awar, Managing...

Anheuser-Busch InBev (Euronext: ABI) and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. ("KKR") announced today that they have entered into an agreement whereby Anheuser-Busch InBev will sell Oriental Brewery ("OB"), South Korea's second largest brewery, to an affiliate of KKR, for 1.8 billion USD (equivalent...