Blackstone, BC Partners and PAI are into the second round of Permira’s auction of Europe’s biggest frozen food company, but Bain and Clayton Dubilier & Rice did not make the cut, Reuters reports.

Bain Capital’s attempts to woo LPs with varying fee structures is a sign of innovation other struggling GPs ought to copy.

Healthcare buyouts accounted for 65% of the value of the top ten global private equity deals in 2011, according to a report by Bain & company. This top ten takes a look at who paid the highest price and for what deals.

PE firm Permira is getting ready to unload its frozen foods unit, Reuters reports.

European headquartered buyout house Apax Partners has reached a first close on Apax VIII in just ten months.

Luxembourg-based investment firm Brachem Acquisition said on Friday it had raised 577.5 million euros ($769 million) from the sale of shares in German chemicals distributor Brenntag, Reuters reported Friday. Brachem, which holds shares in Brenntag for private equity groups BC Partners and Bain Capital as well as Goldman Sachs, said the shares were placed at [...]

European buyout house BC Partners has reached a final close on BC European Capital IX at the fund’s hard cap of 6.5 billion euros ($8.62 billion). There was strong demand from both existing and new investors leading to a 60% increase in the firm’s investor base and a fund size 14% larger than the preceding [...]

Private equity firms traditionally ramp up their investor relations teams in anticipation of a fundraising. Today many firms, and particularly the largest ones, try to maintain an efficient and high quality team at all stages of the fundraising cycle.

Private equity firm Cinven is to buy patent business CPA from Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) for 950 million pounds ($1.46 billion), writes Reuters. Cinven had been up against rival private equity house BC Partners in the final stage of the auction process, sources had previously said. Reuters – Private equity firm Cinven has agreed a [...]

It’s a competitive private equity world out there. Especially for those firms on the fundraising trail or about to embark on a mega fundraising. We thought it might be interesting to take a look at the terms and conditions of a handful of the major European buyout houses fundraising at the moment and who had [...]