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Kaye Wiggins

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Kaye Wiggins covers private equity at the Financial Times and is based in London, and writes for the FT's premium corporate finance briefing, Due Diligence. She joined the FT in 2019 from Bloomberg News.

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  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    Birkenstock
    Birkenstock sold to LVMH-backed group in €4bn deal

    L Catterton and Bernard Arnault’s family office to buy German footwear group

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    EG Group
    EG Group to raise extra $1.8bn debt to buy Asda petrol stations

    Fresh financing will add to the highly leveraged group’s existing $9bn debt pile

  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
    G4S PLC
    GardaWorld will not raise £3.7bn offer for G4S

    Hostile bidder’s move may pave way for rival Allied Universal to buy UK security group

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    CVC Capital Partners Ltd
    Private equity group buys into UK’s vaccine rollout success

    Luxembourg-based CVC takes stakes in companies behind Britain’s inoculation programme

  • Sunday, 14 February, 2021
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Private equity firms eye UK stock market for cheaper deals

    Buyout groups make flurry of approaches to London-listed companies in bet on recovery from pandemic

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    G4S PLC
    Takeover regulator to hold auction for G4S

    Move is attempt to resolve bidding war for UK security company

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    High yield bonds
    Billionaire Asda buyers raise £2.75bn in record sterling junk bond sale

    ‘Blowout deal’ garners strong demand as debt investors hunt for returns

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    Private equity
    Silver Lake and Nestlé lead €3.5bn investment in IVC Evidensia

    Deal will value Europe’s largest medical petcare company at €12.3bn and see EQT end plans for London listing

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Rivals Blackstone and GIP join forces in £3.5bn Signature Aviation offer

    Private equity groups end their battle for control of the UK-listed private jet services group

  • Promoted Content
  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Private equity
    CVC in talks to buy stake in San Antonio Spurs at $1.3bn valuation

    Exclusive: private equity group seeks minority holding as US basketball league opens door to institutional investors

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    FC Internazionale Milano SpA
    Inter Milan owner seeks $200m in emergency finance

    Chinese conglomerate Suning responds to financial crisis at Italian Serie A team

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    EG Group
    Billionaire Asda buyers to stump up less than £800m to clinch £6.8bn takeover

    Deal fronted by Mohsin and Zuber Issa will be largely funded by asset disposals and debt deals

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    ASDA Group Ltd
    Asda’s buyers to sell off assets to fund £6.8bn deal

    New owners plan to sell supermarket’s petrol stations to themselves and raise £3.5bn in debt

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Nestlé in talks with One Rock consortium on bottled water sale

    A deal by Swiss consumer group with private equity for North American business could be worth $4bn

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Apollo Global Management LLC
    Apollo’s Epstein report fails to reassure United Nations fund

    Exclusive: official says asset manager will stay on watch list for extra scrutiny

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    Marston's PLC
    Marston’s rejects £700m offer from private equity group Platinum

    UK pub group says all-cash proposal — latest of 3 offers — undervalues business

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Marston's PLC
    US private equity firm bids for UK pub group Marston’s

    A takeover by Platinum Equity would be the first of a UK pub group since the pandemic started

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    EQT Partners AB
    EQT to buy Exeter Property Group in $1.9bn deal

    Move will expand Stockholm-based investor’s real estate operation

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    EG Group
    Stuart Rose appointed EG Group chair

    Retail veteran brought in to improve governance at UK petrol stations group

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    The Big Read
    Private equity’s new bet on sport: buy the league

    Firms are looking beyond clubs to governing bodies and competitions but the investments risk alienating fans

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Hellman & Friedman LLC
    Verisure taps frothy bond markets for €1.6bn private equity payout

    Swedish security group wraps up historic dividend recapitalisation deal

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Birkenstock explores sale to private equity group CVC

    Deal could value family-owned German company at more than €4bn

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    G4S PLC
    US state officials call for greater scrutiny of potential G4S takeover

    Fears that private-equity backed deal could harm conditions for security guards

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    Dr Martens Clothing Ltd
    From skinheads to the stock market: how Dr Martens went mainstream

    Valuation of £3bn-£4bn would trigger tenfold return for private-equity backer Permira

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Travel & leisure industry
    Blackstone in talks to buy Butlin’s owner Bourne Leisure

    Private equity group makes bets on UK groups in industries hit hard by pandemic

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