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  • Iberia financing nearly in place(2)
    PEI Staff- 4 January 2013

    The TPG Capital-BA consortium has secured a team of banks to underwrite its bid for Spanish airline Iberia, after the chief executive of the UK airline Willie Walsh said the bid would be tabled within four to six weeks.

  • ACON earns 13.5x on Brazilian supermarket
    Jennifer Harris- 4 January 2013

    TPG-affiliate ACON Investments has completed its second exit from a Latin American supermarket chain, with the sale of GBarbosa to strategic buyer Cencosud.

  • Bidding war looms for $45bn TXU deal
    James Taylor- 3 January 2013

    Three of the world’s biggest buyout firms may ignore convention and submit a competing offer for TXU, a US utility that accepted a $45 billion offer from KKR and TPG last month.

  • TPG completes Gate Gourmet deal
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012

    The US buyout house has completed the acquisition of Gate Gourmet, the Swiss in-flight meals provider, after nine months of negotiations.