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  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Travel & leisure industry
    Blackstone in talks to buy Butlin’s owner Bourne Leisure

    Private equity group makes bets on UK groups in industries hit hard by pandemic

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    News in-depth
    Performance test looms for $900bn private debt market

    Investors who made loans during calmer times before pandemic face a reckoning, analysts say

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Football
    Inter Milan owners in talks over private equity sale

    BC Partners and EQT among groups vying for some or all of Suning’s majority holding in Italian club valued at up to €900m

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Red-hot markets allow PE groups to load up targets with extra debt

    Private equity buyers take advantage of low yields to pile companies up with borrowings

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Advent International Corp
    Advent to list Polish parcel locker business

    Private equity group moves to cash in on surge in online shopping during pandemic

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    LexSport
    Silver Lake/NZ Rugby: haka backer Premium

    US private equity group is taking on CVC with talks over stake in All Blacks owner

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Silver Lake Group LLC
    Silver Lake in talks to invest in New Zealand Rugby

    US private equity firm is negotiating to take a 15% stake in the organisation that runs the All Blacks

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Due Diligence
    Private equity, private jets and a take-private tussle Premium

    Less than two weeks into 2021, a bidding war could be one of the UK’s biggest PE battles of the year

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Sixth Street nears deal to take control of sports group Legends Hospitality

    Private equity group seeks majority stake in company co-owned by New York Yankees

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Global Infrastructure Partners agrees £3.4bn deal for Signature Aviation

    GIP outbids rivals Blackstone and Bill Gates’ Cascade for private jet services company

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Mining
    Appian raises $775m for its second private equity mining fund

    London-based firm taps interest in hard assets in rare foray by a financial group into sector

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
    Buyouts may be bad for your health

    Capitalism on steroids does not suit sectors such as social care where outcomes are opaque and subsidies are rife

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    FTfmThe week’s best fund management articles
    Nest plans bold expansion into private markets

    UK workplace pension scheme with 10m members aims to lift private market holdings from 9% to 15%

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone eyes £3bn Signature bid with Bill Gates’s asset manager

    The investment firm managing tech billionaire’s fortune is already largest shareholder in private jet company

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    LexMergers & Acquisitions
    Signature/private jets: boarding Gates Premium

    Aviation services company has a decent business model and could attract higher bids

  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Residential property
    Lone Star pulls £3bn Quintain sale

    Disposal of owner of Wembley Park shelved against backdrop of third UK lockdown

  • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
    Daisy Group PLC
    Daisy Group’s cloud unit valued at £1bn after Inflexion agrees deal

    Private equity company to buy minority stake in DWS unit

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
    Media
    US hedge fund bids for Tribune Publishing in $520m deal

    Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News owner would be taken private under proposed transaction

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Priory sold to buyout group Waterland for £1bn

    Acadia has been trying to offload UK’s biggest mental healthcare business for more than a year

  • Monday, 28 December, 2020
    Sport
    Private capital’s rush into the business of sport

    Institutional investors see long-term opportunities from short-term disruption, but there are risks

  • Monday, 28 December, 2020
    News in-depth
    How selling to yourself became private equity’s go-to deal

    The pandemic has helped make a previously niche set of transactions more mainstream

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Private equity and hedge funds: an especially wild year in review Premium

    Needless to say, it’s been a mad year in the realm of alternative investments

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Special purpose acquisition companies
    Dyal Capital and Owl Rock agree $12.5bn Spac tie-up

    New group will bring together 3 companies with a combined $45bn in assets

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Private equity dealmaking defies pandemic to hit post-crisis high

    Buyout firms have been boosted by government stimulus packages and continued access to cheap debt

  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Japan: a new hotspot for hostile bidders? Premium

    Barriers against aggressive buyers to the nation’s listed companies have begun to give way

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