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Providence hires former Deutsche exec for debt fundThomas Gahan will take over the media and telecom-focused firm’s $1bn debt investment programme, which is exploring investment opportunities in the stagnant credit markets.
- UK services sector provides fertile hunting ground
With deals such as Montagu's acquisition of Biffa earlier this year, private equity buyers have dominated M&A activity among UK business services companies. The sector actually saw an increase in deal flow in the last 12 months, according to recent research.
- Report: Bain, Clayton Dubilier, Hellman eye Lehman private equity unit
The private equity firms are reportedly in discussions to buy Lehman’s investment management unit, which includes its $30bn private equity portfolio. The price of the investment management arm, around $5bn last week, may come down after Lehman’s bankruptcy filing today.
- Lehman’s $30bn private equity portfolio still up for grabs
As British bank Barclays snaps up Lehman’s core investment banking businesses, the fate of the bankrupt bank’s investment management division and private equity portfolio has yet to be sealed. Reports that CVC is bidding for the investment management division are false, PEO has confirmed.
- Lehman Euronext fund resumes trading
The publicly listed fund of funds is now trading at almost a 50 percent discount to NAV. In a statement, the fund says it is “hopeful” that a deal for Lehman’s asset management and alternatives units “will be made within a very short period of time”.
- Debt in two deals selling at 70% of par
Leveraged loans from buyouts are selling at a steep discount. According to reports, KKR and Permira have purchased more than €100m of portfolio company ProSiebenSat.1’s leveraged loans and banks are struggling to offload Clear Channel debt.
- Report: PE firms vie for $2.5bn Asian telecoms deal
TPG, MBK Partners, Providence and Macquarie are reportedly among the firms that have made it through the first round of bidding for the media and telecommunications assets of Hong Kong-listed PCCW. Apax, Bain and Carlyle may also be second-round bidders.
- Leonard Green completes $754m exit
The Los Angeles-based buyout shop has sold floral delivery business FTD Group to United Online for roughly $754m in cash and stock, four years after purchasing the business in a $422m take-private. The deal value is roughly $46 million below the original announced purchased price.
- CD&R in £417m materials testing carve-out
In its first deal of 2008, the New York-based buyout firm beat bids from CCMP, CVC and Warburg Pincus to buy the materials testing division of Bodycote, a global provider of industrial heat treatment services.
- CCMP to build Houston office around famed turnaround pro
The JPMorgan Partners spinout has appointed Quiznos' chief executive Greg Brenneman, best known for his private equity sponsored restructurings of Continental Airlines and Burger King, as chairman and investment committee member. The firm says more operation-focused hires will follow.