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Carlyle-backed company sells division to Close BrothersThe UK bank’s private equity division has augmented its chemicals portfolio, backing the £129m management buyout of Warwick International.
- Thin-film solar panel producer raises $300m
Riverstone, Carlyle and Grazia and GLG are among the private equity investors that have helped bring Nanosolar’s total capital raised to just less than $500m. Separately, Nanosolar competitor AVA Solar has raised $104m.
- Crédit Agricole’s private equity arm to start co-investment business
Armed with €100m of initial committed capital, the French commercial bank’s private equity division will begin a co-investment business to complement its existing funds. Paris-based Frantz Paulus will head co-investment activities for the bank.
- Carlyle, Kennet add on to Belgian software company
FRS Global, acquired by the private equity firms two years ago, has agreed to purchase Switzerland-based Iris integrated risk management to provide integrated risk and regulatory reporting products. Carlyle made its investment from its €222m European technology fund.
- Perseus sells stationary company to SPAC for $669m
Blank cheque company Enterprise Acquisition will assume more than $480m in debt for promotional stationary maker Workflow Management, which counts the MGM Grand among its clients. Perseus and The Renaissance Group took the company private for $225m in 2004.
- CD&R surpasses halfway mark on $7.5bn fund
The operationally intensive firm has raised roughly $4bn for its eighth buyout fund in less than a year, a source has confirmed to PEO.
- CD&R in £417m materials testing carve-out
In its first deal of 2008, the New York-based buyout firm beat bids from CCMP, CVC and Warburg Pincus to buy the materials testing division of Bodycote, a global provider of industrial heat treatment services.
- Taking temperatures
Some US healthcare-focused private equity investors are reevaluating their portfolios and approaching investment targets with extra caution amid an uncertain regulatory environment. A change in administrations come November could hamper some niche healthcare investment sectors.
- Carlyle sells pipe maker to Russian steel giant for $3.53bn
The private equity firm purchased the company, John Maneely, for roughly $500m in 2006 and then merged it later that year with a Canadian steel company in a $1.5bn deal. During Carlyle's ownership, the company increased sales from $2.2bn to $3bn.
- Toll road ace tapped for Blackstone infrastructure arm
The New York firm has asked Macquarie Securities' Trent Vichie to lead its newly unveiled developed-infrastructure business. Vichie, an Australian national, was instrumental in the Chicago Skyway transaction, a landmark US toll road privatisation.