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Kelting to head European leveraged finance at BarclaysDavid Kelting, the joint head of Barclays Capital’s sponsor origination team, has been promoted head of European leveraged finance, replacing Chris Coles, who is going on sabbatical.
- ITV agrees TV3 sale to Doughty Hanson
ITV, a UK broadcaster, has sold its 45% stake in TV3 for £70m as part of a €265m transaction for the whole of the Irish television channel by Doughty Hanson.
- Buyout firms push up Caudwell price to £1.5bn
Mobile phone company founder John Caudwell has sold out to private equity netting more for his stake in the business than analysts had predicted for the entire group.
- 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.
- Providence, Doughty to pay £1bn for Caudwell Group
Providence Equity Partners and Doughty Hanson, two buyout firms, will buy the Caudwell Group, a UK mobile telephony group which owns the Phones 4 U brand, for £1bn.
- Grupo Televisa meets with rival bidder about Univision
In a new twist, representatives from Grupo Televisa, Mexico’s largest broadcasting company, met with the consortium of private equity firms that recently outbid the company in an auction to acquire the Spanish-language media giant Univision.
- Warburg and Cinven buy Essent Kabelcom for €2.6bn
Warburg Pincus and Cinven, the US and European private equity firms, have won a €2.6bn auction to buy Essent Kabelcom, a Dutch cable operator, following the withdrawal of Liberty Global, a US cable business.
- Warburg Pincus, Cinven buy Casema in €2.85bn deal
Private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Cinven have won an auction to acquire Dutch cable television operator Casema from three other private equity firms for €2.1bn.
- Blackstone and KKR abandon Univision bid
The private equity consortium competing with Televisa to acquire the company has abandoned its effort, purportedly because of a dispute over how much to bid.
- Univision accepts $13.7bn PE bid
Spanish-language US media leader Univision Communications and a private equity consortium—including a firm led by the executive producer of the “Power Rangers” television series—announced a landmark $13.7bn acquisition of the publicly traded media giant.