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...Private equity groups Bain, Cinven, Carlyle and Permira have all acquired contract manufacturers or contract research organisations in recent years....
...Carlyle, which holds debt in the loan structure that backs Very, is also involved in the talks, the people added....
...Permira bought the company, which was founded in Venice 23 years ago, in 2020 from rival Carlyle for about €1.3bn....
...Firms including Apollo, KKR and Carlyle have also increasingly focused on credit, in a shift away from the leveraged buyouts that used to be their main focus....
...By contrast, KKR increased its fundraising in the quarter, raising more than $14bn, with “a noticeable uptick in our pipelines around fundraising, deployment and monetisations”, according to Robert Lewin...
...The Hipgnosis Songs Fund has named Intuitive Investments chief executive Robert Naylor as chair following the departure of Andrew Sutch....
...“Like all Australian winemakers, we have been hit by a number of challenging macroeconomic and industry headwinds in recent years,” said Robert Foye, Accolade Wines chief executive....
...Which comedy drama of the 1990s starred Robert Carlyle as a Scottish policeman with a dog called Wee Jock?...
...Smart reads Miami mogul Property developer Marc Roberts is seeking to reshape Miami’s seedy side into a miniature Las Vegas, the FT writes....
...Flush with profits from buoyant equity markets, Blackstone, KKR and Carlyle Group earmarked $2mn in total pay and benefits per employee in 2021, according to calculations by the Financial Times....
...Two of the world’s biggest private equity firms have reported starkly diverging fortunes as KKR boosted its fundraising expectations while Carlyle axed jobs as part of a cost-cutting drive....
...Moelis has hired Robert Mendelson as a managing director focused on credit investment institutions and platforms. He joins from Venor Capital Management....
...The case was brought by Carlyle Aviation’s UK and US arms, which the legal claim described as “the Carlyle plaintiffs”. It alleged the insurers had committed nine separate breaches of contract....
...And finally Kick off dry martini January in style with my colleague Robert Armstrong’s guide to the best martinis in Manhattan. My personal favourite is Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle....
...The handsome and affable Serrano has been at The Carlyle for more than 30 years. It is easy to see why, once behind the Art Deco bar, one would stay for good....
...While the protagonists of The Commitments (1991), Brassed Off (1996) and Billy Elliot (2000) followed and achieved their dreams, Robert Carlyle’s Gaz and co were driven by desperation and found only temporary...
...Kaplan and colleagues Robert Harris and Tim Jenkinson were then handed a hoard of private equity fund performance data from consultants Burgiss....
...The new conditions will test industry giants such as Blackstone and Carlyle, and dozens of fast-growing firms including Thoma Bravo, Vista Equity Partners and Platinum Equity, which have seen their assets...
...At Carlyle, Megan Starr, the firm’s global head of impact, argues that owning and decarbonising these assets is a more effective strategy....
...equity giant has been locking horns with its rival Bain Capital over the collapse of Italian tyremaker Fintyre, in an effort to recoup more than €200mn in potential losses, reports DD’s Will Louch and Robert...
...Garland called the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the documents “extraordinary” as he appointed Robert Hur, a Washington-based lawyer and former federal prosecutor, to the role of special counsel...
...particularly in light of the positive progress that we believe the firm has made during [Lee’s] tenure in terms of accelerating growth, entering new business verticals, and expanding profitability,” said Robert...
...Other inspirations include Helmut Newton (she is a fan of the documentary Frames From The Edge, which shows how the photographer “created his language of fashion and glamour”) and Robert Palmer’s “Simply...
...Portfolio manager Robert O’Leary and performing credit head Armen Panossian will succeed him as co-chief executives....
...“Demand from buyers dropped at the end of 2022 but we have seen them return this year, keen to buy something at the right price,” says Robert Green, of John D Wood & Co estate agency....
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