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Warburg Pincus, Cinven buy Casema in €2.85bn dealPrivate equity firms Warburg Pincus and Cinven have won an auction to acquire Dutch cable television operator Casema from three other private equity firms for €2.1bn.
- Bridgepoint makes 5.5 times money on £320m All3Media sale
Permira, a European buyout firm, has bought All3Media, maker of UK television programmes Richard and Judy and Formula One, from Bridgepoint for £320m.
- Bridgepoint sells French nursing homes
BC Partners, a London-based private equity firm, and AXA Private Equity, the private equity arm of the French insurance group, have teamed up to acquire Médica, a French nursing home business.
- Blackstone’s Cineworld postpones IPO plans
UK cinema group Cineworld, a portfolio company of US private equity firm The Blackstone Group, has announced that its £450m planned flotation later this month has been postponed.
- Goldman Sachs to bid for PagesJaunes stake
US investment bank Goldman Sachs is to partner with PAI Partners to bid for France Telecom’s 54% stake in the French yellow pages business.
- Cinven breaks European buyout fundraising record
Spectacular early returns from its third fund have helped Cinven, a European large cap buyout group, to a record fundraising but rival firm Permira is hard on its heels.
- Cinven leads interest in £300m All3Media
All3Media, the Bridgepoint-backed company behind popular UK TV shows Richard and Judy and Shameless, is reportedly attracting interest from private equity firms Cinven, Apax and DLJ Merchant Banking.
- Groupe Moniteur enters third PE ownership
The French publisher has been acquired from private equity firm Sagard by London-based Bridgepoint in a tertiary buyout.
- Banking fees from private equity 19% down
Goldman Sachs Capital Partners led the financial sponsors’ global rankings for banking fee revenue in the first quarter of this year, accounting for 5.2 percent of market share.
- Kirkland hires leveraged finance specialist
Stephen Gillespie, a leveraged finance partner at law firm Allen & Overy, is to join rival Kirkland & Ellis’ London office.