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JV closes $1.1bn Lord & Taylor acquisitionThe partnership between NRDC and Apollo has also hired Christina Johnson, the former chief executive of Saks Fifth Avenue, in the latest example of top retail talent making the jump to private equity.
- Bain and Blackstone join Coles Myer bid
Bain Capital, The Blackstone Group and Pacific Equity Partners are joining a consortium of buyout firms that has approached Coles Myer with a takeover offer.
- Banks can’t say no to an LBO
Standard & Poor’s has warned of the ’extreme’ average price for a leveraged buyout, which has hit a record high in an aggressive market.
- Gap stock surges amid buyout rumours
The struggling US retailer see shares rise by 7% after reports that it is considering a sale.
- Allied Capital in $124m restaurant chain buyout
The Washington, DC-based firm has made the investment in the full-service US restaurant chain Huddle House.
- US buyout groups join BVCA
Bain Capital, Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR have signed up to the BVCA, a UK trade body, as the industry continues its charm offensive.
- Private equity firms in $300bn fundraising boom
Global private equity fundraising has reached $300bn in the first nine months of 2006, already ahead of the $283bn raised in all of 2005.
- Coles Myer shares slip after board rejects private equity takeover bid
Shares of Coles Myer has traded lower after the second largest Australian retailer rejected an indicative A$17.4 billion bid put forward by a private equity syndicate.
- Pacific Equity Partners boost team
Pacific Equity Partners, an Australian private equity firm, has taken onboard a former Bain consultant as a director, after hiring an ex-Coles executive.
- Bain and Apax squeeze into €8.3bn Philips deal
The two global buyout firms have found a route back into the Philips’ semiconductor deal which KKR and its consortium tied up at the beginning of August.