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KKR lands record $33bn hospital dealKKR, Bain Capital and Merrill Lynch will buy HCA, a hospital chain, and take on its $11.7bn of debt, making it the largest leveraged buyout in history.
- New $1.67bn loan facility for VNU
VNU, owned by a private equity consortium including KKR, Blackstone and Carlyle, plans to raise $1.67 billion of new debt to finance the acquisition.
- KKR hires Shinsei advisor in Japan
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts announced that it has hired Hisashi Hosokawa, a former Shinsei advisor as well as a former vice minister at Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry, to be a senior advisor for KKR in Japan.
- KKR to buy PagesJaunes for €3.4bn
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, a US buyout house, has beaten off competition from a number of other private equity firms, including Texas Pacific Group and Eurazeo, to acquire France Telecom’s 54% stake in French directories business PagesJaunes.
- Terra Firma sells waste business for £1.4bn
Terra Firma, the UK private equity firm, will hold on to the waste-to-energy arm of Waste Recycling Group, which analysts say could be worth £650m, following a sale of the waste disposal business to FCC of Spain.
- CVC boosts team in Australia
CVC Asia Pacific has promoted Adrian Warner, who helped in setting up the private equity firm’s Australian operations in 2001, to managing director.
- Four mega-firms to form lobbying group
Carlyle, Blackstone, KKR and TPG are in preliminary talks on forming a trade group for buyout firms.
- All in the Federated family
As private equity interest in the retail sector heats up, firms are finding a surprising amount of CEO talent among the ranks of former Federated executives. By Paul Fruchbom.
- Blackstone unlikely to submit new HCA bid
A source close to the matter said the firm has been looking at HCA for a few weeks, but is unlikely to submit a competing offer.
- Blackstone and KKR target GUS units
Blackstone and KKR are understood to be pursuing an interest in two retail units owned by GUS, despite a recent announcement by the UK retail group to demerge the businesses.