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TPG joins CVC-led group for Sainsbury’s bid(2)The CVC-led consortium preparing a £9 billion bid for Sainsbury’s, a UK supermarket chain, has been further strengthened after Texas Pacific Group decided to abandon a rival bid and join the group.
- KKR, TPG pick up TXU for $45bn(2)
The largest-ever private equity deal follows closely the previous record-holder, this month’s $39bn Blackstone-backed buyout of Equity Office Properties. The new owners of TXU will offer electricity customers price cuts.
- Bain Capital ventures into China real estate(2)
Bain Capital has partnered CBL & Associates, a US mall developer and owner, to invest in a Chinese mall operator and real estate developer based in Nanjing.
- 3i launches US growth capital team(2)
3i has launched a new growth capital team in the US, as it looks to repeat its European success in the competitive mid-market space.
- CCMP, Goldman in $6.4bn hospitals deal(2)
The two private equity firms have teamed up to take private Texas-based hospital operator Triad Hospitals.
- Industry comes together to launch charitable foundation(2)
The Private Equity Foundation, a new initiative designed to help the industry co-ordinate its charitable giving, launched in London last night.
- ACON buys pizza restaurant chain
The Washington, DC-based firm joins a wave of several other firms investing in the restaurant industry with the purchase of Peter Piper, a pizza chain popular with Hispanics consumers.
- North Castle in third exit of year(2)
The sale of skin care product maker HDS Cosmetics Lab is the ‘healthy aging and wellness’ specialist firm’s fifth exit since February of 2006.
- US buyout groups join BVCA(2)
Bain Capital, Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR have signed up to the BVCA, a UK trade body, as the industry continues its charm offensive.
- Blackstone enters China
The global private equity firm has unveiled a new Hong Kong office co-led by Antony Leung, the region’s former financial secretary, and by Ben Jenkins, a top Blackstone dealmaker who will relocate to Asia. Schwarzman is ’impressed’ by China’s economic reforms.