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Carlyle in $2.6bn mobile take-privateThe firm has agreed to acquire Syniverse Technologies, a provider of mobile phone networks, and will pay a 35% premium over Syniverse’s recent average closing price. The acquisition is Carlyle’s second multi-billion tech take-private this week.
- Blackstone to target small US banks
An IPO of BankUnited would create a platform for Blackstone to buy smaller banks in the US, the firm’s president Tony James said during an earnings call.
- Carlyle agrees $3.9bn tech take-private
The firm has agreed to acquire CommScope, which makes infrastructure for communications networks. Carlyle will make the investment from its $13.7bn fifth buyout fund, and its €5.4bn Europe Partners III.
- Pushing the envelope in China
Global private equity giants like Carlyle, Blackstone and KKR are testing new strategies in order to do private equity in China.
- Picking up where they left off
After a lost year (or two), private equity activity has resumed once again in Australia. Exits, however, remain elusive. Jenny Blinch reports.
- MerchantBridge cements $220m Iraq deal
The 15-year lease for control of Iraqi cement plant Karbala is reportedly the largest private equity deal transacted this year in the MENA region.
- LPs in 'gigantic' emerging markets push
Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein said during a conference in New York that interest in developing economies has greatly accelerated.
- Carlyle checks into €480m hotel deal
Eurazeo has sold B&B, France's third-largest budget hotel chain, to Carlyle’s European buyout and real estate funds.
- PEC adds 18 members, changes name
The Washington, DC trade group has more than doubled its membership to include mid-market firms, and has created a committee to consider issues relating to the small and mid-market.
- From the archives: Eckert on the future of GSC
During a 2005 interview with PEI, GSC founder Alfred Eckert talked about the surging opportunity in the market for collateralised debt obligations.