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  • KKR buys $1bn Italian auto parts maker
    Robert Venes- 30 December 2012

    Global mid-market private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners has sold Italy’s FL Selenia just two years after acquiring the auto parts firm from Doughty Hanson.

  • AlpInvest, Lexington clinch $1.2 DPL secondary
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012

    AlpInvest Partners and Lexington Partners have agreed to acquire the entire private equity portfolio of Ohio-based utility DPL.

  • Vestar acquires Italian meat producer
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012

    The €360 million buyout of Cesare Fiorucci from the Fiorucci family is the firm's fifth investment in Europe.

  • SEC asks Marsh for Trident info
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012

    Seeking information on related-party transactions, the regulatory body has sent a request to Marsh regarding the insurer’s private equity affiliate, MMC Capital, which manages the Trident family of funds.

  • MMC backs reinsurance platform
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012

    Intent on acquring a US life insurance company, MMC Capital, the private equity arm of Marsh, is leading a group including Vestar Capital Partners and Friedman Fleischer & Lowe in a $600m investment in Wilton Re.

  • Pants buyout dropped
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012

    Jeans-maker Levi Strauss has called off the $800m sale of its Dockers casual-pants business to Vestar Capital Partners after signing a letter of intent several weeks ago.

  • Americas
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012
  • Vestar to sell healthcare co, brake maker
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012

    Vestar Capital Partners has agreed to sell Sheridan Healthcare to Boston private equity firm JW Childs while simultaneously agreeing to sell Swedish Sab Wabco in a €310 million deal.

  • Vestar shores up European operations
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012

    The New York headquartered private equity firm has appointed Mario Cesari as an executive director in its Paris office.

  • Russo quits Doughty, joins Lazard
    PEI Staff- 30 December 2012

    The former head of Doughty Hanson's Italian operation has joined Lazard’s fledgling European buyout operation