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KKR courts debt investors for landmark Boots deal(3)The record debt package financing Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s landmark £11 billion acquisition of Alliance Boots is proving attractive to debt investors. The buyout firm began its roadshow yesterday.
- BVCA and TUC host roundtable talks(3)
The two trade bodies hosted the first of two planned roundtables this morning as the private equity industry seeks to appease its fiercest critic.
- American Capital to be added to S&P 500(3)
Publicly traded private equity firm American Capital will be added to the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Friday—taking the place of a company recently acquired by KKR.
- American Capital to be added to S&P 500(2)
Publicly traded private equity firm American Capital will be added to the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Friday—taking the place of a company recently acquired by KKR.
- Warburg Pincus’ bid for Bausch & Lomb trumped(2)
Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, the buyout arm of the investment bank, and US buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are reportedly partnering Advanced Medical Optics’ rival bid for optics company Bausch & Lomb.
- Warburg Pincus’ bid for Bausch & Lomb trumped
Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, the buyout arm of the investment bank, and US buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are reportedly partnering Advanced Medical Optics’ rival bid for optics company Bausch & Lomb.
- Cov-lite and Cov-loose every time(3)
As ratings agency Standard & Poor’s criticises covenant loose loans for being covenant-lite by the backdoor, a senior banker tells Toby Lewis cov-lite loans will become extinct.
- BofA, Oak Hill in complex $1.9bn Euronext venture(3)
Bank of America, Oak Hill, along with CalPERS and Harvard have created a unique, megafund-sized pool of permanent capital to be traded on the Euronext. The vehicle, Conversus Capital, is structured like a collateralised loan obligation with private equity fund interests as the underlying assets.
- Blackstone to acquire medical supplier for $1.6bn
The Blackstone Group plans to acquire DJP, a supplier of musculoskeletal and vascular health services and supplies, as an add on for its portfolio company ReAble Therapeutics.
- CD&R sells Brakes to Bain for £1.3bn(3)
US buyout firm Bain Capital has won the race to buy Brake Bros, a UK food distribution business, from Clayton Dubilier & Rice, in a deal thought to be worth about £1.3 billion.