London-based investment firm Permira’s interest in footwear is not a new development. It acquired Dr Martens, a UK-based brand known particularly for boots, in 2014. It more recently invested in ...

Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Private equity firm Cinven has agreed to sell upmarket British shoe brand Kurt Geiger to New York-listed ...

Cinven has appointed Philipp Meyer as partner. Meyer will join Cinven from Carlyle Group, where he was a managing director in the European Buyout fund and co-head of Healthcare in Europe. In his ...