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Colony makes €1b investment in AccorThe global private equity real estate firm has made a strategic investment in European hotel owner and services provider Accor.
- Blackstone offers €8bn for stake in Wind
The global buyout group has tabled an offer for a 63 percent interest in Italian telecommunications group Wind, valuing the business at €12.6 billion in what would be the largest ever European private equity deal.
- Liquid year for Clayton Dubilier
The New York buyout firm has distributed more than $2.5bn to limited partners in 2004.
- Cinven joins Eutelsat private equity club
Cinven has agreed to pay DeaSat €337 million for the Italian group’s 11% interest in the satellite operator which also counts Goldman Sachs, Texas Pacific, Lehman Brothers and Eurazeo among its backers.
- Eurazeo becomes largest Eutelsat investor
Eurazeo has upped its stake in Eutelsat in a deal marking the third change in the company's ownership structure in the last month.
- GS Capital acquires £363m satellite stake
GS Capital Partners, the principal investment arm of Goldman Sachs, has bought a 16 percent stake in France based satellite operator Eutelsat.
- CD&R leads year’s largest European LBO
A consortium comprising Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Eurazeo and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity has signed an exclusive agreement to purchase listed French electrical distributor Rexel for €3.7bn.
- Feeding frenzy: 2004 deal volume nears $300bn
Private equity groups around the globe backed transactions worth almost $300bn in 2004, a 60 percent increase on 2003, according to new research.
- BNP Paribas grows German LBO presence
Christian Lange joins the European bank as part of an effort to expand its leveraged finance team.
- Competitive tensions
There is no shortage of players in the French buyout market, which has been a popular destination for institutional investors in recent years.With corporates starting to re-emerge as potential bid rivals to private equity firms, auctions are getting crowded. Andy Thomson took the Eurostar to Paris