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NBA legend teams with JohnsonRetired basketball star Michael Jordan will enter into a joint venture with Robert L. Johnson’s private investment platform to pursue private equity and other investment activities.
- Kinder Morgan eyes $22b MBO
Co-founder Richard Kinder’s management-led buyout of the pipeline operator would be the second largest private equity deal of all time. GS Capital, AIG, Carlyle and Riverstone are providing equity to the proposed deal.
- Carlyle invests in European online advertising
The Carlyle Group has made a fourth investment from its European technology fund, taking a minority stake in German online advertising business Global Media.
- KKR listing to ‘dramatically change’ industry
Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein, speaking at the IFC’s Global Private Equity Conference today, said KKR’s recent Euronext IPO will ‘dramatically change’ the private equity industry. His comments come amid a surge in interest in publicly listed private equity vehicles.
- Halifax Group closes second fund at $305m
The Dallas-based buyout firm’s second fund will focus on small private companies with enterprise values less than $100 million.
- Carlyle invests in Chinese flooring business
Carlyle’s Asian growth capital group is investing $27.5 million in a Chinese wooden flooring manufacturer and distributor, not long after making two separate investments in China and India.
- India’s ICICI Venture invests in healthcare
India’s ICICI Venture has made a minority investment in an Indian diagnostic centre chain Metropolis Health Services India, an acquisitive firm looking to expand overseas.
- EQT buys triple play cable company
The Nordic buyout firm has reportedly paid €1.3 billion to acquire German television, broadband and telephony provider Kabel BW from Blackstone and Caisse de Depot et Placement de Quebec.
- Carlyle and ONG invest in Dutch chemicals
Global private equity house Carlyle and Dutch buyout firm Oranje-Nassau Groep have stumped up €160m to acquire Dutch specialty chemicals business Stahl from Investcorp in a €520m transaction.
- Schwarzman: SOX is ‘worst thing’ for US
In a joint interview with Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman and Carlyle’s David Rubenstein aired yesterday on US public television, Schwarzman called the Sarbanes-Oxley Act the ‘best thing that’s happened to our business and one of the worst things that’s happened to America’.