Flexpoint Ford has agreed to buy GeoVera Insurance Group Holdings. Financial terms weren’t announced. The sellers were Friedman Fleischer & Lowe and Hellman & Friedman. GeoVera provides specialty residential property insurance. Aon Benfield Securities and SFRi provided financial advice to GeoVera. PRESS RELEASE GeoVera Insurance Group Holdings, Ltd. (“GeoVera”), a leading provider of specialty residential property [...]

PE sponsor Hellman & Friedman is heading for the exits… and restructuring firm AlixPartners is going along for the ride, sources tell Reuters.

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.

TV ratings firm Nielsen Holdings has launched a follow-on offering that will allow its private-equity backers to sell as much as $760 million worth of shares, according to Reuters‘ publication IFR. The offering will allow private equity backers Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR, Thomas H. Lee, Hellman & Friedman, AlpInvest Partners and Centerview Capital to sell down [...]

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In 2008, Hellman & Friedman invested up to $941.3 mln equity in Getty Images. The company is paying a $380 mln dividend to its owners, which means Hellman has apparently made back nearly all of its investment.

Bain, Advent and the Blackstone Group emerge as the most active U.S. buyout shops in Europe.

Nigel Doughty died at his home on Saturday. He was 54.

Over the last 18 months, one of the most acquisitive private equity-backed companies has been inVentiv Health Inc., a provider of marketing, public relations and clinical services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. Thomas H. Lee Partners took the company private in 2010 for about $1.1 billion. The company has completed no less than eight [...]

Hellman & Friedman said Monday that the merger of Datatel and SunGard Higher Education has closed. The new company will have a new name that will be launched during the first half of this year. Until that time, the company will be called “Datatel+SGHE.”