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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      The growth equity phenomenon examined

      Moar leverage!

    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Due Diligence
      The $156bn PE firm with a succession problem Premium content

      Plus, Beijing gives a tentative green light on Broadcom/VMware and Carlyle’s unexpected victory in China

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    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Tiger Global Management LLC
      Scott Shleifer to step down from private equity role at Tiger Global

      Executive’s decision to step back ‘based largely on geography’ after move to Florida during pandemic

      A montage of Scott Shleifer and Chase Coleman and the Tiger Global logo
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Permira and Blackstone lead €14bn bid to buy eBay-backed Adevinta

      Plan to delist Norwegian online classifieds company would be second-biggest buyout this year

      Adevinta logo on a phone
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      McDonald's Corp
      Carlyle wins big on $1.8bn sale of stake in McDonald’s China business

      Citic Capital to remain majority shareholder in fast-food chain’s local operation

      A McDonald’s outlet in Hong Kong
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      Private equity resorts to buying back companies after IPO flops

      EQT, Cinven and General Atlantic among those involved in take-private deals for businesses floated two years ago

      Ariel Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Markets InsightHolden Spaht
      Private equity’s new financial engineering brings risks

      NAV loans can buy time but cannot stop the inevitable if businesses have not improved

      Dollar bill montage
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Ardian Holding SAS
      Ardian: the European private equity powerhouse with a succession problem

      Seventy-year-old Dominique Senequier has built a $156bn firm over three decades. What happens when she leaves?

      Dominique Senequier is the only executive remaining of the founding team
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Insurance
      Generali executive warns on private equity funds in insurance

      Short-term funds can have misaligned interests, says finance chief, after collapse of rival insurer

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    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Japanese business & finance
      Japan embraces management buyouts as pressures mount at listed groups

      Highest number of takeover proposals since 2010 fuels predictions MBOs could become biggest driver of deals

      An electronic stock board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      News in-depthBody Shop International PLC
      How consumers fell out of love with The Body Shop

      UK high street stalwart known for its anti-animal testing campaigns in the 1990s has lost touch with eco-shoppers

      A Body Shop store
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Due Diligence
      A Wall Street disaster’s final chapter  Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, Mars pays extragalactic premium for Hotel Chocolat and Blackstone seeks new financing options

      The Due Diligence logo
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Workplace pensions
      Can the UK learn from Australia’s pension savers?

      So-called super funds deliver better returns for retirees

    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      News in-depthOil & Gas industry
      Convicted mining tycoon Steinmetz linked to Italy’s largest oil refinery

      Rome blessed purchase of Sicily plant by a company connected to billionaire convicted of corruption in Switzerland

      Beny Steinmetz
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Center Parcs UK and Ireland
      Brookfield shelves sale of Center Parcs

      Canadian private equity firm failed to secure bids over its £4bn price tag for the holiday resort group

      Center has performed well in recent years with occupancy of more than 90 per cent.
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      F1
      Arctos invests in Aston Martin F1 team at £1bn valuation

      Sports-focused private equity group takes stake on eve of first Las Vegas Grand Prix for 40 years

      Fernando Alonso celebrating
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Blackstone Group LP
      Blackstone borrows to boost lending power of $52bn credit fund

      Private equity firm raises funds through collateralised loan obligation secured by its portfolio

      Signage outside the Blackstone headquarters in New York
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Wellcome Trust warns of private equity ‘shakeout’

      Investment chief at £38bn foundation says ‘tourist capital’ that flowed into sector could face losses

      The Wellcome Trust’s Nick Moakes, pictured in 2018
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Due Diligence
      A brutal bonus season for Wall Street Premium content

      Plus, the €1bn beauty deal that went ugly and buyout funds hunt for start-up bargains

      Due diligence logo
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Natura to sell The Body Shop to private equity firm for £207mn

      Aurelius buys ethical beauty retailer from Brazilian cosmetics group

      A Body Shop store
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Bank bonuses
      Wall Street workers told to expect another year of smaller bonuses

      Payouts for some roles set to fall by 25% as higher interest rates damp dealmaking and IPOs

      People walk past the New York Stock Exchange
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      General Atlantic takes controlling stake in Joe & the Juice

      Private equity firm agrees deal that values Danish sandwich chain at about $600mn

      A branch of Joe & the Juice in Soho, central London
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      Venture capital investment
      Investors shake up VC market by raising money to buy out start-ups

      Aim is to take advantage of economic headwinds to acquire promising businesses at a discount

      San Francisco-based Arising Ventures, has been looking to buy up start-ups with viable business models but slowing growth
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      Wendel seeks further private equity deals after IK partners investment

      Family-backed French firm scours market for targets as it starts managing outside money for first time

      Laurent Mignon joined Wendel in early 2023 after a long run in banking
    • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
      The Long ViewJohn Plender
      Private equity faces a reckoning

      The change in circumstances is dramatic after decades of triumphalist money making

      George Roberts and Henry Kravis, of KKR, pictured at the closing of the RJR Nabisco deal in the late 1980s
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