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Activa sells Materne for €200mThe France-based private equity firm has made a 3x return on the dessert platform it built up.
- Centre Partners sells Bumble Bee for $980m
Centre Partners this week exited its ownership stake in Bumble Bee Foods with a $980m sale to Lion Capital.
- Permira stocks freezer with €805m deal
The firm’s Birds Eye Iglo portfolio company reportedly beat out a Lion Capital-backed bid for Unilever’s Findus Italy frozen food business.
- LDC again leads regional BVCA awards
The UK mid-market investor was for the second year in succession the front-runner at the BVCA’s portfolio company management awards.
- Lion bags $615m potato chip exit
UK-based Lion Capital, currently raising Fund III, purchased Kettle Foods in a 2006 deal that valued the company at around $300m.
- The changing Federation
The Russian landscape is set to alter beyond recognition and only the strongest will survive. Toby Mitchenall reports from Moscow
- Apax writes equity cheque for £975m Marken deal
The buyout firm has underwritten its portion of the deal entirely with equity, and will look to put a debt package in place before it completes in 2010.
- Citi fundraisers surface at Credit Suisse, Helix, BC Partners
Senior members of Citi’s disbanded fund placement team - including Andrew Wilbur and Laurent de Rosiere, former European co-heads - have moved on to other firms.
- Schwarzman: 'The worst is behind the industry'
Blackstone chief executive Stephen Schwarzman has reportedly told investors it is planning up to 13 exits in the near future.
- Blackstone, Lion near €2.6bn drinks exit
If it completes, the trade sale to Japanese brewer Suntory will be one of the largest private equity exits this year.