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KKR preps $839m REIT IPOThe storied leveraged buyout firm is offering stock in a new real estate investment trust—and scoring a 25 percent carry in the process.
- Blackstone, Bain join Chinese Maytag bid
The two private equity giants have teamed with Haier Group, China’s largest maker of household appliances, in a $1.28 bid for Maytag, a struggling US maker of washing machines that already has a buyout deal inked with Ripplewood Holdings.
- Tom Lee in $1.6bn directories exit
Thomas H. Lee and CIVC will reap a huge profit in the sale of TransWestern Publishing, a US yellow pages publisher, to London’s Yell Group.
- Distress down under
A recent high-profile distressed deal in Australia sees the retail trend hit the Southern Hemisphere. By Aaron Lovell.
- Circle Peak cinches restaurant buyout
Circle Peak Capital has taken over family-restaurant chain Shari’s Management. The deal is coming ahead of an anticipated fund launch for the New York firm.
- Lehman backs music roll-up
Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking has backed the launch of EverGreen Copyright Acquisitions, a music catalog roll-up.
- AMC and Loews complete merger
Private equity-backed theatre-chains AMC Entertainment and Loews Cineplex Entertainment have completed their tie-up first announced last summer.
- KKR recruits Flextronics CEO
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has tapped outgoing Flextronics CEO Michael Marks to join the firm. Marks’ hiring will coincide with the departures of long-time KKR execs Edward Gilhuly and Scott Stuart, who announced their intention to leave the firm in September.
- Global PE deals near $500bn mark
Private equity-backed M&A increased markedly in 2005 with Europe seeing the lion’s share of deal volume.
- Bain in $3bn Texas Instruments deal
Boston-based Bain Capital has inked a deal to carve out the Sensors & Controls business of Texas Instruments for $3bn.