Village gossip - dealmakers' digest to be sold to, er ... a dealmaking firm

Revealed: Private Equity International is on the verge of being sold to - surprise, surprise - a private equity firm.

Readers might recall that back in March I revealed on little old Betaville that the publisher of Private Equity International, PEI, had hired advisers from Livingstone Partners to work on a sale of the business. Here is a link to that piece: http://betaville123.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/village-gossip-dealmakers-digest-goes.html

Rigby returns to the fray

Congratulations to Roger Bootle and Peter Rigby.

On Friday, Bootle, the top City economist, finally got round to completing a deal to sell a 35pc stake in the economics consultancy to Lloyds Development Capital. As part of that deal, Peter Rigby, the former chief executive of Informa, makes his return to business-to-business publishing industry by becoming a director of Capital Economics.

Village gossip - has Bootle called off £100m sale of Capital Economics?

What has happened to strategic review of Capital Economics, the economics consultancy founded by well-known economist and Daily Telegraph commentator Roger Bootle?