Infrastructure Dominates Year's Top Buyout Deals

To herald the near-end of Q3, we have a list of the year’s largest announced private equity deals. Earlier I pointed out that TPG could be in the running to strike the second largest American PE deal of the year. Beating out the US were two foreign infrastructure deals: TransAlta Corp., the $7.8 billion Canadian buyout backed by Credit Suisse, GE Infrastructure and LS Power Equity Partners; and Asciano Group, a $4.08 billion Austrailian buyout executed by TPG, and once again, CS and GE. Click here to download a chart of the top 20 with full details. See the Top 10 after the jump.

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