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Investcorp makes 8x on online payment businessCVC’s €600m purchase of Skrill comes just days after it invested €800m in Domestic and General and entered exclusive talks to acquire Campbell Soup's European business.
- CVC pays £800m for Domestic and General
The deal provides a healthy exit for Advent International, which took the home goods insurer private in 2007 for £523.9m.
- CPPIB private equity grows 2.8%
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s entire portfolio generated a 1.1% return during the first quarter of the fiscal year, a ‘relatively turbulent’ period, says CPPIB president and CEO Mark Wiseman.
- CVC in line for Campbell Soup European units
The firm, which held a €10.5bn first close on its latest fund last month, eyes a set of businesses that generates an aggregate €530m in annual sales.
- Former PepsiCo president joins CD&R
Clayton Dubilier & Rice has hired 29-year PepsiCo veteran John Compton as a new operating advisor.
- Madison Dearborn doubles money on Yankee Candle
The $1.75bn exit comes following a terminated sale and scuttled refinancing for the candle retailer, which Madison Dearborn acquired in 2007.
- A year's grace for TPG funds
TPG’s recently approved investment period extension for its Fund VI could help the firm when it comes to market with Fund VII.
- Friday Letter: The rise of the multinationals
What’s the future of the buyout industry? Easy. Currently the most widespread view of the industry’s evolution is this: private equity is going where investment banking has gone before it. As a result, a very small number of very large, global LBO players are set to dominate, attracting the vast majority of institutional capital being allocated to the asset class.
- Friday Letter: And the winners are ...
Private equity is a truly international business, and is shaping companies and economies around the world.
- Friday Letter: Rollover
The private equity industry has recently been coming under fire for selling assets to the public market at prices that sit far distant from the price these groups paid to take them private.