Bain Buying Skylark for $2.1B

In Japan's largest buyout since the financial crisis, Bain Capital announced that it will pay $2.1 billion to buy restaurant chain Skylark from Nomura Holdings and other investors, Reuters reported. Nomura Principal, the private equity unit of Nomura, originally invested in Skylark in 2006 through a management buyout with UK private equity firm CVC Capital Partners.

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