Hints and tips:
...Including this one: Forlano is said to have tipped off his friend Nathan Bleckley via text, who, according to the filing, messaged back to say he hadn’t bought in “Bc my funds are low”....
...The offer was supported by a majority of Ted Baker’s shareholders, including founder Ray Kelvin, value investor Toscafund and fund managers Schroders and Oasis, who together account for 50.7 per cent of...
...Mr Kosarev had a stake in the holding company that owned Vivacom but his investment was wiped out by the debt default....
...Nikos Stathopoulos, a partner at BC Partners, adds that as traditional bank financing is hard to come by “private equity is now becoming the funder of choice” for sports bodies....
...Smart reads House of cards The Sydney installation of the billionaire businessman James Packer’s Crown Resorts empire was meant to be an oasis for Asian high-rollers....
...Baseball saga: Tokyo Dome vs Oasis Target: To kyo Dome Activist: Oasis Management After more than a year of behind-the-scenes engagement but little meaningful progress, Oasis last week publicly criticised...
...General Atlantic bought just over half of Argus, which helps assess global oil prices and provides industry news, in 2016 after members of the Nasmyth family decided it wanted to reduce its holdings....
...They would then attach themselves to one of the group of these girls, the linking couple holding hands — a small act of public intimacy unthinkable anywhere else in this region....
...Eduardo Marques, Valiant Capital: Long Seven & I Holdings As if Dan Loeb’s attention wasn’t enough, another hedgie is interested in the owner of 7-Eleven....
...Of the 2014-15 vintage Petsmart had its credit rating downgraded three notches after it was bought by a consortium of investors led by BC Partners for about $8.7bn....
...The governance code puts pressure on companies holding other share stakes to explain why they are of value or to divest the holdings....
...London-based private equity group BC Partners bought a 51 per cent stake in Migros in 2008 but now owns 80 per cent of the shares....
...In the first half of the year, portfolio valuations were coming back decisively above par, financing for deals and sales became abundantly available and funds such as Montagu Private Equity, BC Partners...
...BC Partners has recently entered the Spanish market, while funds advised by Bridgepoint this year purchased a portfolio of 11 wind farms from ACS, the construction group, for some €600m....
...Sweden’s EQT Partners and the UK’s BC Partners, which are in the process of raising €4.25bn and €6.5bn, respectively, both offered “early bird” discounts on their management fees to those investors who came...
...Even if you bought in 2007 you are two-thirds of the way through the holding period. Most are looking for an exit.” This assertion is borne out by the wave of deals announced this year....
...Private equity firms are expected to try to sell numerous holdings this year, in anticipation of a possible rise in their taxes next year....
...BC Partners, Blackstone and Permira were earlier in talks to buy MW Brands but decided against it, leaving two industry buyers – the Thai group and Bolton, the leading producer of canned tuna in France and...
...BC Partners and Silver Lake Partners recently paid $3.1bn to buy MultiPlan, a healthcare services company, from Carlyle and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe....
...BC Partners, Blackstone and Permira are bidding for MW Brands – owner of John West and Petit Navire tuna – for which Trilantic Capital, the former buy-out arm of Lehman Brothers, wants €600m....
...BC Partners and CVC Capital Partners have jointly bid for Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s biggest cable operator, which could be sold for about €5.5bn ($7.5bn) by its US private equity owner Providence Equity...
...Buy-out groups Advent and BC Partners are also working on possible bids for Kabel, which could generate big profits for its owner, Providence Equity Partners, and Tony Ball, the former BSkyB CEO who chairs...
...CVC and BC have convinced their banks to back the deal with up to €4bn of debt, or about six times this year’s expected ebitda – a boom-time multiple....
...Medica, a French and Italian care homes operator, floated in Paris last week, raising €313m for its owners BC Partners and Intermediate Capital Group, albeit at a reduced price....
...Ripplewood Holdings, the US buy-out house, has effectively been out of the market for a year, after suspending plans to raise a new $2.5bn fund a year ago in the face of troubles in its portfolio, including...
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