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KKR, GA seal $1.65bn Northrop Grumman carve-outCPPIB's credit arm, as well as KKR Capital Markets and four others, will provide financing for the purchase of government engineering consultancy TASC.
- CVC strengthens FIG team with senior advisors
As it looks to deploy $20bn in dry powder, CVC has hired financial services industry veterans Bob Jenkins and Jim Sutcliffe to advise on the sector.
- National Express rejects £700m proposal from CVC consortium
The debt-laden transport company's independent board has said the revised offer undervalues the company.
- Report: CVC bids $2.1bn for Anheuser’s CEE units
Should a deal with CVC materialise, it would mark the second set of assets one of the world’s biggest brewing companies has recently sold to private equity firms.
- Heard on the street
After a busy month spent whizzing across New York from one industry gathering to the next, Cezary Podkul reports back with his Top 10 insights into the key trends in infrastructure
- Foresight closes €25m solar financing deal
The alternative asset manager has secured €25m in project financing for a solar project in Puglia, Italy. WestLB and Barclays acted as mandated lead arrangers on the transaction, which represents Foresight’s third deal in the sector so far this year.
- Apollo forms real estate opportunity team
The Leon Black-led firm has assembled a core group of real estate professionals from Barclays, Goldman Sachs and AREA Property Partners as it prepares to raise an opportunistic private equity real estate fund later this year.
- Report: Hopu, Temasek buy into CCB in $7.3bn deal
A reported 6% stake sale by Bank of America in China Construction Bank has allowed Temasek to increase its 5.6% stake. For Hopu, it marks its second investment in a Chinese bank this year.
- BPE continues to mull spin-out
Barclays' private equity arm is continuing talks with its parent about a possible spin-out, though contrary to media reports, sources say investors in Barclays Private Equity funds have as yet not been involved.
- CVC hires head of US financial institutions team
Kamil Salame, former partner with DLJ Merchant Banking and managing director with Credit Suisse, will head up CVC’s financial institutions group from the US. The firm launched its financial institutions team last year.