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Bain and Prides Capital to invest $60m in Princeton ReviewClose on the heels of Apax’s $8 billion May buyout of The Thomson Corporation’s higher education division, Bain Capital Ventures and Prides Capital have agreed to invest $60 million in test prep company The Princeton Review.
- More private equity firms mull Capio bids
Blackstone, Cinven and CVC are reportedly looking at Swedish healthcare business Capio, despite Apax Partners and Nordic Capital having a €1.67bn unsolicited bid rejected earlier this month.
- Apax-backed Incisive buys US rival(3)
US banker Bruce Wasserstein’s investment vehicle has agreed to sell publishing business American Lawyer Media to Apax Partners-backed Incisive Media for $630 million.
- Cinven, Carlyle, Apax divest MediMedia USA
Private equity firms Cinven, The Carlyle Group and Apax Partners have made a fourth disposal from their 2002 buyout of the business publishing division of Vivendi Universal Publishing, selling MediaMedia USA in a secondary buyout to Vestar Capital Partners.
- Apax-backed Incisive buys US rival(2)
US banker Bruce Wasserstein’s investment vehicle has agreed to sell publishing business American Lawyer Media to Apax Partners-backed Incisive Media for $630 million.
- PE groups stalk Telecom Italia mobile arm
Buyout firms Permira, The Carlyle Group and Apax Partners are reportedly mulling separate bids for TIM, the mobile unit of Telecom Italia, in what would be Europe’s biggest ever buyout.
- BarCap recruits buyout star Lovering(3)
Investment bank Barclays Capital has appointed veteran buyout manager John Lovering as vice chairman. Lovering has played a key role in some of the UK’s most successful private equity deals, although his stellar reputation has been blemished slightly by the recent travails of Debenhams, the UK retailer he chairs.
- Candover makes 2.3x return on Bureau sale
Candover has sold electronic publisher Bureau van Dijk to BC Partners, in a deal that will generate an IRR of 35 percent for the UK-based buyout firm.
- Apax-backed Incisive buys US rival
US banker Bruce Wasserstein’s investment vehicle has agreed to sell publishing business American Lawyer Media to Apax Partners-backed Incisive Media for $630 million.
- Duke Street clinches CI Traders take-private(3)
Duke Street Capital and a consortium of other buyout firms has had its £260 million bid for UK retailer CI Traders accepted – soon after the company rejected a bid from Alchemy Partners.