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KKR to set double record with €8.3bn Philips dealUS buyout firm KKR is re-writing the record books with Europe’s largest single equity investment to fund the buyout of Philips’s semiconductor unit, underwritten by Europe’s biggest junk bond sale.
- Bain to buy insurance software company
The Boston-based firm will acquire Applied Systems from Vista Equity Partners for around $675 million.
- Buyout firms to bid for Dutch publisher Sdu
Four buyout firms are reported to have reached second round bids for government-owned Dutch publisher Sdu.
- Listed KKR fund has $1.6bn in deals
KKR Private Equity Investors, which raised $4.8bn in May, has committed $1.6bn to recent KKR deals and $1.9bn to the firm’s 2006 Fund.
- Signet shareholder warns against PE bid
Investec, a minority shareholder in Signet Group, a UK jewellery retailer currently being stalked by two private equity firms, has said in a letter that the firm could achieve private equity-style benefits by remaining a public company.
- €2bn Lafarge unit on PE radar
Bids for the roofing division of Lafarge, a global cement group, are being considered by a dozen private equity firms as well as trade buyers, according to a French report.
- Washington insider advises buyout lobbying group
Harry Clark, a veteran lobbyist and communications counselor to industry and government officials, is helping America’s biggest buyout firms establish an advocacy group for the private equity industry.
- Coles Myer says proposed takeover ‘highly conditional’
Coles Myer, a listed Australian retailer has referred to the proposed takeover offer received from a consortium of private equity firms as “highly conditional.”
- Less is more for Archer
Australian private equity firm Archer Capital is adding a small buyout strategy to its existing mid-market franchise.
- Misys opens books to private equity
Permira and General Atlantic Partners and a consortium led by Silver Lake Partners have been given the go ahead to carry out due diligence on Misys, a banking and healthcare software group.