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Clear Channel buyout gets green light(2)Shareholders have approved the $27.5 billion buyout of Clear Channel by Bain and TH Lee, nine months after the consortium’s first bid was accepted.
- TPG hires GE veteran as senior advisor for Japan
TPG’s move to appoint an executive retired from a known corporate brand mirrors similar efforts undertaken by other international private equity firms such as KKR and Bain Capital.
- Carrefour abandons $4bn Turkish auction
The French retailer has pulled out of the bidding for Migros, as buyout firms such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and BC Partners are set to table bids tomorrow for the Turkish company.
- Bain brings Chinese partner to $2.2bn 3Com deal(2)
Computer network company 3Com will be taken private by Bain Capital in partnership with Chinese networking group Huawei.
- Bain does $1.3bn daycare deal
The private equity firm has secured financing from Goldman’s corporate lending arm and its blockbuster mezzanine fund in order to purchase publicly-traded child care and education company Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
- Sorenson closes second fund on $400m
The 3-year old firm has closed the largest-ever private equity vehicle raised by a Utah-based buyout firm – though without participation of two founding managing directors, including former American football star Steve Young.
- Romney and the ‘deal junkies’(4)
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s success in building Bain Capital was due more to a talent for hiring and organizing smart, aggressive deal doers than to his own investment prowess, according to sources interviewed by Private Equity International magazine.
- Romney and the ‘deal junkies’(3)
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s success in building Bain Capital was due more to a talent for hiring and organizing smart, aggressive deal doers than to his own investment prowess, according to sources interviewed by Private Equity International magazine.
- Romney and the ‘deal junkies’(2)
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s success in building Bain Capital was due more to a talent for hiring and organizing smart, aggressive deal doers than to his own investment prowess, according to sources interviewed by Private Equity International magazine.
- Romney seeks political capital from time at Bain
The latest Mitt Romney campaign ad makes the first mention of his time at Bain Capital and an incident in 1996 when he dispatched employees to search for the missing daughter of a partner.