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Judge approves auction for Lehman's investment management divisionThe auction for Lehman's Neuberger Berman and units including private equity fund of funds and secondaries, as well as infrastructure, will proceed despite objections from Carlyle over a $2.15bn bid from Bain and Hellman & Friedman.
- Wachovia's private equity arm awaits parent
Wachovia Capital Partners, much like the private equity units of Lehman Brothers, Merill Lynch and AIG, is in limbo while Citi and Wells Fargo negotiate the acquisition of the bank.
- Private equity buyouts decrease, shrink in size in 2008
Difficult financing conditions continued to soften global buyout activity for private equity firms, with deal volumes plunging 72 percent in the first nine months of 2008. The oil and gas and mining sectors as well as Japan, India and the Middle East remained bright spots.
- Bain, Hellman to buy Neuberger for $2.15bn
The transaction will not include Lehman Brothers' major private equity businesses like merchant banking, real estate, venture capital and master limited partnerships. The deal will include some of Lehman's private equity fund of funds and the firm's debut infrastructure fund, which has been targeting $1bn.
- Report: Bain, Clayton Dubilier, Hellman eye Lehman private equity unit
The private equity firms are reportedly in discussions to buy Lehman’s investment management unit, which includes its $30bn private equity portfolio. The price of the investment management arm, around $5bn last week, may come down after Lehman’s bankruptcy filing today.
- Lehman’s $30bn private equity portfolio still up for grabs
As British bank Barclays snaps up Lehman’s core investment banking businesses, the fate of the bankrupt bank’s investment management division and private equity portfolio has yet to be sealed. Reports that CVC is bidding for the investment management division are false, PEO has confirmed.
- Informa bidders back off
Unprepared to up their offer of 450 pence per share, Providence, Carlyle and Blackstone have walked away from the deal for London-based publisher Informa.
- Lehman Euronext fund resumes trading
The publicly listed fund of funds is now trading at almost a 50 percent discount to NAV. In a statement, the fund says it is “hopeful” that a deal for Lehman’s asset management and alternatives units “will be made within a very short period of time”.
- UK media group rejects reduced £1.9bn bid
The reduced takeover offer for Informa, publisher of Lloyd's List, by Providence Equity Partners, The Carlyle Group and The Blackstone Group has come after a shake-up in the original consortium that offered £2.15bn for the company in late June.
- General Atlantic trades in Nymex stake for CME shares
Upon the merger of Nymex Holdings and CME Group at the end of this week, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based private equity firm will hold 1.3 percent of CME; General Atlantic also holds stakes in NYSE Euronext, BM&F Bovespa and the National Stock Exchange of India.