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- Waud launches new healthcare platform
Waud Capital Partners has launched its latest healthcare roll-up, Acadia Healthcare. The firm is partnering with the same executive that spearheaded its Regency Hospital roll-up.
- Albertson’s sold for $17.4bn
In a major buyout deal involving no buyout firms, Albertson’s agreed to a sale valued at $17.4bn, with SuperValu, CVS and Cerberus Capital Management teaming up to buy the US supermarket and drug-store chain.
- Verizon $17bn directories sale looms
Telecom giant Verizon Communications wants to sell or spin off its directories business, the company announced yesterday. The deal could fetch a reported $17bn.
- AMC, Loews to merge
The second- and third-largest movie theater chains in the US, both of which are backed by private equity firms, reportedly plan to merge.
- Double whammy
The US Supreme Court handed down two decisions this week that may adversely affect venture-backed companies and development. By Art Janik
- KKR preps $839m REIT IPO
The 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.