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Quadrangle invests $50m in movie chainThe media and communications fund invested $50m in Madison Dearborn portfolio company, Cinemark, the third largest operator of movie screens in the US.
- Newbridge eyes $1bn profit on bank exit
Regardless of which bidder ends up buying Korea First Bank, its current 49 percent owner, US private equity firm Newbridge Capital, stands to make a cool $1bn profit on a groundbreaking 1999 investment.
- Ripplewood names MSX head industrial partner
The New York- and Tokyo-based private equity firm has appointed Thomas Stallkamp, the former chairman and CEO of engineering services corporation MSX, will assist Ripplewood in overseeing its growing automotive supply platform.
- KKR exits child care centers for $1.04bn
Global buyout house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is selling its majority stake in KinderCare to daycare center operator Knowledge Learning Corp.
- CD&R leads year’s largest European LBO
A consortium comprising Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Eurazeo and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity has signed an exclusive agreement to purchase listed French electrical distributor Rexel for €3.7bn.
- Feeding frenzy: 2004 deal volume nears $300bn
Private equity groups around the globe backed transactions worth almost $300bn in 2004, a 60 percent increase on 2003, according to new research.
- Carlyle eyes first Chinese LBO
US private equity fund the Carlyle Group may be about to become the first firm to undertake a leveraged buyout in mainland China, according to a report.
- Rubenstein sees ‘challenge’ from hedge funds
The co-founder of The Carlyle Group said at a Yale University private equity event that hedge funds currently enjoy advantages over private equity firms in offering financing to companies.
- Onex in C$225m diagnostic imaging deal
The private equity arm of the Canadian conglomerate will take an 84 percent equity interest in Center for Diagnostic Imaging.
- Carlyle in third Euro exit in three months
The global private equity firm has more than doubled its money in selling its stake in a German automotive supplier for €218m.