Private Equity
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2 min read · 13 April 2011
The numbers are in, and the biggest buyout deal by a U.S. sponsor in Q1 was...the $5.3 billion take-private of Del Monte Foods Co., by KKR, Vestar Capital and Centerview Partners. To find out who rounded out the Top 10, below sister magazine Buyouts has put together a slideshow (with data from publisher Thomson Reuters as of March 25). Some interesting highlights:
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2 min read · 08 April 2011
(This story first appeared in Buyouts magazine, a peHUB sister publication.-Ed.) The largest buyout of all time is fast becoming an embarrassment for its investors and for the private equity industry as a whole. In the latest development, Energy Future Holdings Co. said on April 1 that it was negotiating a deal with creditors that could give it more time to pay back $20 billion of its debt. The development is the latest fissure in what increasingly looks like a gargantuan failure for the Texas utility's sponsors, led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs's buyout arm. The PE firms bought the Dallas-based energy company, formerly known as TXU, for around $45 billion in 2007. (The utility still does business under the TXU brand, among others.) Perhaps more importantly, the company's struggles come at
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