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...Clayton agrees. “Athleisure paved the way for luxury to be understated and modern,” she says....
...She joins from Arnold & Porter....
...– Also Taibbi on Trump’s SEC pick Jay Clayton’s connection to a “mysterious firm”. But do read Levine on that too before making up your mind It’s about half way down....
...Kerwin Clayton and Rohit Chatterji will become co-heads of M&A in the region. Clayton was previously head of industrials and energy, while Chatterji was Southeast Asia banking head....
...Martin Arnold, FT banking editor, discusses what’s behind the reshuffle with DD’s Arash Massoudi, M&A correspondent....
...Clayton Dubilier & Rice, the US private equity group, is working on a £650m ($1bn) bid for Kwik-Fit, the tyres and exhausts retailer that has been put up for sale by PAI Partners, the French private equity...
...Lion Capital, which specialises in the buy-outs of consumer goods companies, is competing for Britax with three rival private equity groups: Clayton Dubilier & Rice, PAI Partners and Nordic Capital....
...A similar deal was agreed in September by Clayton Dubilier & Rice, which bought a 42.5 per cent stake in Univar, the chemicals distribution group owned by CVC Capital Partners, a few months after the company...
...PAI is also expected to receive bids of about £650m (£770m) next month for Kwik-Fit, the UK car parts retailer and fitter, from US buy-out firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Japanese tyremaker Bridgestone....
...CRIME A Private Business, by Barbara Nadel, Quercus, RRP£18.99, 320 pages A female stand-up comic known for her edgy routines turns to PIs Hakim and Arnold to find out if someone is stalking her but she...
...Apax, which declined to comment, outbid two rival private equity consortia for ISS, one made up of Blackstone, Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Bain Capital and Nordic Capital and another of Apollo Management and...
...It saw off competition for Britax from buy-out rivals Lion Capital, Clayton Dubilier & Rice and PAI Partners....
...Clayton Dubilier & Rice, the US private equity group, is to buy a 42.5 per cent stake in Univar, the chemicals distribution group, in a deal valuing the company at $4.2bn....
...recent recruits to private equity include Lord Davies, the former trade minister and head of Standard Chartered, who joined Corsair Capital, and Vindi Banga, the former Unilever senior executive, who joined Clayton...
...TPG and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice are now to bid separately after two months of on-off talks between the two over whether they would bid separately, together or not at all for the £2.5bn business....
...Other recent recruits by private equity this year include Vindi Banga, the former Unilever senior executive, who joined Clayton Dubilier & Rice, and Kevin Beeston, the former chairman of Serco Group, who...
...The move means Advent and Bain have seen off competition from two rival US private equity groups, TPG and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, in what would be the UK’s largest private equity deal for almost three...
...TPG is also looking at bigger deals and is in talks to buy Royal Bank of Scotland’s payment processing business for about £2.5bn, having recently teamed up with its US buy-out rival Clayton Dubilier & Rice...
...In the auction of RBS’s payment processing arm, the two consortiums chosen to go through to the final round were an alliance of Advent International and Bain Capital, and a likely combination of TPG and Clayton...
...Recent secondary buy-outs include KKR’s £950m acquisition of pet accessories chain Pets at Home from Bridgepoint and Clayton Dubilier & Rice’s £400m takeover of British Car Auctions from Montagu....
...Clayton Dubilier & Rice, the US private equity group, has entered exclusive talks to acquire British Car Auctions in a deal valuing Europe’s biggest vehicle reselling network at about £400m....
...Bridgepoint, Cinven, BC Partners and Clayton Dubilier & Rice are all expected to reach the second round of bidding for BCA, which sells more than 12,000 vehicles a week at physical and internet auctions....
...“It was too easy to raise money,” said Roberto Quarta, partner at Clayton Dublier & Rice. “There will obviously now be a shake-out.” Others forecast more pressure on fees....
...Clayton Dubilier & Rice, a private equity firm specialising in distribution businesses, had attracted interest from private equity groups including Blackstone, CVC and Cinven, as well as Sysco, the biggest...
...But a video featuring the TV starlets and a sprinkling of other celebrities including Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, and rapper Snoop Dogg, failed to upstage the real stars of the event...
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