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...The sale gives Baker Tilly US an enterprise value of more than $2bn and capital to fund what its chief executive Jeff Ferro called an “extremely aggressive” acquisition strategy, signalling the firm’s ambition...
...Aspen is owned by private equity group Apollo and sells insurance and reinsurance through the Lloyd’s of London market as well as in Bermuda and the US....
...Millicom was the most discounted telecom stock in Latin America as judged by its enterprise value against its operating free cash flow, according to a research by JPMorgan in November....
...Thoma Bravo is buying the business to help it expand into the US, where it owns dozens of enterprise software businesses, a person familiar with the matter said....
...Including Endeavor’s majority stake in TKO, Silver Lake put the consolidated total enterprise value of the business at $25bn, making it one of the largest private equity takeovers in the past decade....
...Data from Sweden’s statistical agency show that there are 1.33mn registered enterprises in the country....
...Visa and Mastercard collectively have an equity value of $1tn. Stripe, the payments plumbing company, at its private valuation peak clocked in at $95bn....
...The latest deal will give Argus an enterprise value of roughly $4.6bn, according to two people familiar with the matter....
...The shares jumped on Thursday to an enterprise value of $14bn. Other shareholders should study previous examples of canny negotiation and avoid selling out cheaply....
...A strong Chinese recovery could also challenge the recent performance dominance of US equities, either directly or indirectly via Japanese or European assets....
...Endeavor’s shares jumped by almost 25 per cent after it announced the strategic review, giving it an enterprise value of about $14bn....
...The roughly $7bn enterprise value on that deal — a multiple of about 13 times CAA’s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation in its latest financial year — represented a considerable...
...The acquisition implies an enterprise value of £701mn for TRG, valuing the company at a multiple of around nine times adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation....
...But the dispute over the sale of the German enterprise software group is a good deal more compelling....
...France’s billionaire Pinault family has agreed to buy a majority stake in Hollywood talent manager Creative Artists Agency from private equity firm TPG in the largest-ever transaction for the family’s holding...
...“We believe BDT & MSD’s long-term view and deep expertise in supporting family enterprise makes it an ideal partner to help us reach these goals and accelerate global growth, including in the US market,”...
...Shares in the enterprise software developer rose by half at Monday’s open. That matched Silver Lake’s offer valuing Software AG at €2.2bn....
...Russian records suggest it has shipped about $2.1mn of goods to Orlan LLC — a St Petersburg company that is a self-described fishing equipment supplier....
...News of the private equity group’s bid — sketchy on details — bounced the internet retailer’s shares up more than 40 per cent on Monday. Understandably, investors would cheer an offer for THG....
...If finalised, the deal would mark the largest private equity takeover of the year....
...He now wants to diversify those gains “to create an enterprise equivalent to his energy interests”, according to one of his advisers....
...Edwin Conway, who previously ran alts, will lead a new unit focused on private equity, infrastructure, real estate and climate investing....
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...Coupa announced on Tuesday that it would be taken over by technology private equity specialist, Thoma Bravo....
...Thoma Bravo considered providing equity for Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter earlier this year, which would have been a departure from its model of buying enterprise software companies....
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