At least three private equity funds, including Charterhouse Capital Partners, are in bid talks with Italy’s biomedical group Sorin, writes Reuters. Italian daily la Repubblica reported that Charterhouse had offered 2 euros per share to buy the group, but sources said there had been no formal offer from the fund. (Reuters) – At least three [...]

European private equity performance showed positive returns across all investment categories for the twenty year investment horizon for the period ending December 31, 2011, according to Thomson Reuters European Private Equity Performance Index (PEPI).

Things haven’t been going so great over at the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System. It faces increasing obligations to pensioners, is over-allocated to private equity and has lost staff from its PE investment team. Against that backdrop, the $25 billion pension fund has been seeking buyers for as much as $3 billion worth of its PE investments, one [...]

Tunstall Healthcare Group, which is backed by Charterhouse Capital Partners, has agreed to buy American Medical Alert Corp. Tunstall is paying $8.55 a share cash, or $82.3 million for AMAC. New York-based ACAM provides telecare/telehealth solutions like remote patient monitoring devices and emergency response systems. Jefferies advised Tunstall while Houlihan Lokey served as financial advisor to AMAC.

Charterhouse Capital Partners is taking a majority stake in the global environmental consultancy Environmental Resources Management. Under the terms of the transaction, which values ERM at $950 million, Charterhouse, s a private equity investment firm focusing on Western European businesses, will acquire roughly a 65% stake. PRESS RELEASE: Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the world’s leading environmental [...]

(Reuters) – Four private equity firms are preparing binding bids for Wood Mackenzie, the energy consulting firm owned by beleaguered rival Candover, ahead of a June 2 deadline, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Bain Capital, Charterhouse Capital Partners [CHCAP.UL], Hellman & Friedman and Warburg Pincus [WP.UL] are preparing bids for Wood [...]