Bernard Vaughan

French industrial chemicals company Arkema is shopping its tin stabilizer business to suitors including private equity firms, according to a source who has looked at marketing materials for the asset. The tin stabilizer business, housed in Arkema’s “functional additives” business, provides chemicals that are added into polyvinyl chloride, or PVC products, such as pipes, cables […]

Marlin Equity Partners LLC is in the early stages of establishing an office in London,  Buyouts reported earlier today. The Hermosa Beach, Calif.-based shop, known for investing in struggling or challenged companies, is contemplating the expansion because it’s seeing more opportunities in Europe, said Spasov, who first mentioned it on a panel at the PartnerConnect […]

There’s been some pretty grim data on global M&A released in recent weeks. Thomson Reuters, the publisher of peHUB, for example, reported on March 21 that buyside financial sponsor M&A was down 60 percent from the fourth quarter. But a more tailored look at control-stake acquisitions by U.S. sponsors of global targets (as opposed to […]

GSO Capital Partners Founder Bennett Goodman pulled back the curtain on life as part of The Blackstone Group, saying that the potential for conflict looms but that the firm has put certain measures in place to prevent them.

Providence Equity Partners is especially bullish on education deals, a sector he says is under-served by private equity firms, CEO Jonathan Nelson said Wednesday during a keynote interview at the PartnerConnect conference. Education is the second-largest market in the U.S., at $1.3 trillion, Nelson said. “The scale is eye-popping,” Nelson said. “Growth and importance is […]

The private equity’s brand, fees and Mitt Romney’s candidacy’s for president were among the main topics in the first panel of Partner Connect on Wednesday, with Breakingviews’s Rob Cox moderating a panel with Harvard’s Josh Lerner, Teachers’ Private Capital Senior Vice President Jane Rowe and Benchmark Capital’s Peter Fenton. Rowe offered a fairly strong defense […]

A regulatory filing suggests Audax Group is close to investing in a security products distributor, with Brazos Private Equity the selling stakeholder.

An Audax Group managing director has left and started his own firm.

Industrial Opportunity Partners is planning to wrap up fundraising on its second fund in the coming weeks, Buyouts reported earlier today, citing a source familiar with the firm’s fundraising process. The Evanston, Ill.-based buyout shop expects to hit its hard cap of $275 million, the source said. The firm’s target for the fund, Industrial Opportunity […]

KPS Capital Partners has already generated 6x its invested capital in HHI Group Holdings LLC, an auto parts company that recently completed its seventh recapitalization under the turnaround shop’s ownership, a source close to the deal told Buyouts. The latest recap, announced March 26, was funded by a combination of increasing the company’s term loan […]