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CVC to buy Samsonite for $1.7bnEuropean private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has agreed to buy US-based Samsonite Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of luggage. The deal is part of a drive to increase CVC’s US presence.
- Teachers buys Chilean water companies
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has continued its recent flurry of deal-making, buying two Chilean water supply and sanitation companies from Southern Cross Group.
- GNC changes hands for the fourth time(2)
Ares and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan are buying the vitamin retailer for $1.65bn. GNC was previously owned by Thomas H. Lee, Royal Numico and Apollo.
- GNC changes hands for the fourth time
Ares and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan are buying the vitamin retailer for $1.65bn. GNC was previously owned by Thomas H. Lee, Royal Numico and Apollo.
- Ares, JP Morgan sell House of Blues
After being recapped by JPMorgan Partners and Ares Management in 2004, House of Blues Entertainment has been sold for $350 million.
- Texas Pacific to acquire Celerity
The buyout giant’s purchase of the company, which produces fluid-delivery instruments, includes the co-investment and rollover of existing equity held by Ares Management, Gryphon Investors and Tennenbaum Capital.
- Silvester scandal strikes again
Yet another private equity firm – this time Washington DC-based Thayer Capital Partners - is being made to pay for its affiliation with disgraced former Connecticut treasurer Paul Silvester.
- Ares, JP Morgan recap House of Blues for $110m
The entertainment company, which provides venues for live music performances, will use the capital to expand to other US cities, Europe and Asia.
- Weisdorf resigns post at CPP, Kester to leave Colorado PERA
Two of the most active North American pension funds in international private equity have lost the executives in charge of their private equity programmes.