Private Equity
Nearly nine years after the firm’s initial investment in Gomez, the web services company is being sold to CompuServe for $295m.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm will use $1bn in equity in to purchase Busch Entertainment's 10 US theme parks, including Sesame Place, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
SeaWorld is among the theme parks Anheuser-Busch InBev may sell to the mega-firm. Meanwhile, CVC has reportedly increased the equity ratio in its €1.3bn bid for the brewer's CEE assets.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The deal includes a $1.9bn debt financing package from up to 11 lenders.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The lenders will anchor the German yacht maker with a €55m investment and write down most of its debt. Bain bought Bavaria for €1.3bn in July 2007.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
As stakeholders discuss what to do with the firm’s suspended €3bn 2008 fund, Candover has lost control of laboratory business ALcontrol to GSO Capital.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The seller of the interest has not been named, though Liquid Realty said the fund manager focuses on core office properties in the West End of London.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
United Malt Holdings will be bought by listed Australian grain handler GrainCorp.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The European private equity firm paid an undisclosed amount for the business, which has serviced more than 2,000 airports since it was formed in 1947.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The reported $4bn sale of Kosmos Energy to ExxonMobil comes as institutional investors show increasing appetite for natural resources.
2 min read · 05 January 2013