Private equity house CVC Capital Partners has sold a 10 percent stake of the firm to a group of investors as it looks to strengthen ties with its influential backers, writes Reuters. The names of the investors and the value of the stake were kept confidential, writes Reuters.

Institutional investors often say they have trouble gaining access to top-quartile private equity firms. It suggests there exists a pantheon of repeat performers while the rest are condemned, fund after fund, to the lower ranks. But analysis of this year’s Buyouts fund returns database pokes holes in that notion.

PE firms are saying ‘Cheese!’ and LBO shop Hellman & Friedman may come away with the biggest smile of all in this sponsor-to-sponsor deal.

Stanley Black & Decker is to acquire Infastech from CVC Capital Partners and Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited for $850 million. Infastech is a manufacturer and distributor of specialty engineered fastening technologies headquartered in Hong Kong. PRESS RELEASE Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK), an S&P 500 global diversified industrial company, announced today that it [...]

CVC Capital Partners has acquired majority ownership of global business advisory firm AlixPartners from Hellman & Friedman and Jay Alix. AlixPartners’ 125 managing directors have maintained a considerable stake in the firm, and Jay Alix, who founded the firm in 1981, has maintained a substantial minority stake. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. PRESS [...]

Stanley Black & Decker is among potential bidders for private equity-owned Infastech, a Singapore-based industrial fastener maker, writes Reuters. CVC Capital Partners and Standard Chartered‘s private equity arm have hired Bank of America and Goldman Sachs to sell the business after buying it for about $350 million-$400 million in 2010, according to Reuters. (Reuters) – [...]

Fiat (FIA.MI) and Ferrari’s corporate parent Exor (EXOR.MI) mulled an investment in motor racing company Formula One before its initial public offering, and opted to pass because the price was too high, Chairman and CEO John Elkann said on Tuesday. Private equity fund CVC Capital Partners CVC.UL recently sold a “pre-IPO” stake for $1.6 billion [...]

As you’re heading to the beach this weekend, here’s a slideshow of the week’s top 5 private equity-backed M&A deals.

Motor racing business Formula One will start pre-marketing for its up to $3 billion Singapore initial public offering, writes Reuters. Formula One, which holds 20 races around the world and has a more than 500 million television viewers, is controlled by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, with a 63.4 percent stake. CVC plans to [...]

CVC has beaten out other buyout firms, including Madison Dearborn Partners and Providence Equity Partners, in the race to buy AlixPartners from private equity owner Hellman & Friedman, sources tell Reuters.