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    Kaye Wiggins

    Private capital correspondent

    Kaye Wiggins covers private equity at the Financial Times and is based in London, and writes for the FT's premium corporate finance briefing, Due Diligence. She joined the FT in 2019 from Bloomberg News.

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    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
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      Apple under scrutiny for mishandling misconduct claims

      Uber, Lyft and Doordash earnings show gig economy profitable for apps

    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Investing in funds
      Investors sell stakes in buyout funds at a record pace

      Pension funds among those that sold $33bn worth of stakes in private funds in first six months of the year

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      Technology sector
      Silver Lake-backed Cegid to combine with Grupo Primavera in €6.8bn deal

      Merger of groups owned by likes of KKR and Oakley Capital shows investor interest in European software sector

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
      Goldman Sachs Group
      How the Morrisons buyout turned into a nightmare for Goldman Sachs

      Mega-deal went from dream ticket to a symbol of the excesses of cheap-money era

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
      Private equity
      Private equity firm CVC sells TMF Group stake to its own fund

      Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund will also buy stake after market turmoil made listing or external sale more difficult

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
      Euromoney accepts £1.7bn private equity offer

      Astorg and Epiris have made multiple bids for financial publishing and data group

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      LetterOne Holdings SA
      Russian oligarch-backed LetterOne sues PE firm that manages its billions

      Lawsuit against Pamplona reveals depth of dispute between groups after Ukraine war complicates ties

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Megadeals buoy global M&A despite pullback from record 2021

      Deals such as Elon Musk’s proposed acquisition of Twitter carried volumes to $2tn in first half

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      NSO Group Technologies
      EY valued NSO Group at $2.3bn months before emergency bailout

      Big Four firm gave the Pegasus spyware maker a high valuation and called it a ‘market leader’

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      The Big Read
      Selling to yourself: the private equity groups that buy companies they own

      Private equity groups are increasingly buying companies that they already own. But critics point to conflicts of interest within these deals that allow managers to reap great financial rewards

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
      Private equity groups make £1.6bn takeover approach for Euromoney

      Demand for data services has helped UK-listed company recover from pandemic

    • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
      Financial services
      Private equity chiefs fear waking up with ‘a terrible hangover’

      Financiers at SuperReturn conference face up to rising rates and a looming recession

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      NSO Group Technologies
      US defence group L3Harris in talks to buy NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware

      A deal for hacking technology could raise ‘serious security concerns’, White House official says

    • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
      Private equity
      Ares hands back control of company it seized from Novalpina buyout fund

      Private markets group reaches ‘mutually agreeable resolution’ over French drugmaker Laboratoire XO

    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
      Boots UK Ltd
      Ambani’s Reliance teams up with Apollo to make binding bid for Boots

      Offer values UK group at between £5bn and £6bn and will allow US parent to keep a minority stake

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      Sanjeev Gupta
      UK steel jobs at risk as judge rules GFG winding-up bid can proceed

      Citigroup is seeking to shut down Sanjeev Gupta metals companies over unpaid debts

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      NSO Group Technologies
      Credit Suisse pushed for spyware sales at NSO despite US blacklisting

      Swiss bank among creditors that pressed Israeli maker of Pegasus hacking tool to solve ‘liquidity crisis’

    • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
      News in-depthNSO Group Technologies
      NSO’s cash dilemma: miss debt repayment or sell to risky customers

      The inside story of the Pegasus spyware maker’s perilous financial situation and its way ahead following US blacklisting

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      Twitter Inc
      Twitter refuses to remove Silver Lake’s Egon Durban from board

      Decision to disregard shareholder vote is latest corporate drama ahead of Elon Musk’s planned $44bn takeover

    • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
      The end of globalisation at Davos

      Toshiba reveals takeover interest as battle heats up

    • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
      Global Economy
      Business leaders warn that three-decade era of globalisation is ending

      Executives and investors gather in Davos to discuss mounting economic and financial challenges

    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
      Chelsea FC PLC
      Officials demand ‘watertight’ legal guarantees from Abramovich over Chelsea funds

      Concerns in government centre on whether oligarch could lay claim to £1.5bn loan in future

    • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
      Private equity
      CVC pushes back IPO plans amid market turmoil

      Europe’s biggest private equity group now expects to list this autumn or even in 2023

    • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
      Private equity
      Ares secures crown jewel of Novalpina buyout fund

      Vigorous challenge is vowed as private lender takes over French pharma group Laboratoire XO

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Gupta’s GFG faces insolvency hearing after Credit Suisse ends settlement talks

      Metals group had borrowed $1.3bn from Swiss bank’s clients to finance sprawling empire

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