The UK-based private equity firm is trying to crash the party for the De Vere hotel and leisure chain after two years of courting the business.
The firm, formerly known as Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, has joined with local investors to buy the Time Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Lion Capital, the former European arm of Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, today announced a deal to acquire New Jersey-based American Safety Razor from buyout firm JW Childs.
Dutch bank ABN AMRO’s infrastructure fund has bought ESP Gas Pipeline Group ahead of the fund’s second close later this year.
After a difficult seven-year holding period, Industri Kapital has sold Continental Bakeries to NPM Capital of the Netherlands to book a single-digit IRR.
A consortium led Macquarie Bank is vying with US private equity firm TPG-Newbridge to acquire the telecommunications and media assets of Hong Kong-listed PCCW in what could be a deal worth over $7 billion.
Dorna, CVC’s motorbike racing rights business forced into auction by competition issues, is attracting early interest from rival buyout groups.
French captive Axa Private Equity is giving Eurotunnel’s restructuring a Gallic seal of approval, assuaging French retail investors and taking the group a step closer to recovery.
Federated Department Stores will sell the chain to NRDC Equity Partners, a partnership between Apollo and National Realty & Development Corp.
UK firm Apax Partners, owner of HIT Entertainment, a children’s TV rights company, is looking again at the sector after its approach for ITV was rebuffed earlier in the year.