Apax has emerged as the winner of the Tommy Hilfiger auction, inking a deal to buy the clothing designer for $1.6 billion.
Sydney-based Pacific Equity Partners has overcome bird flu fears to acquire Heinz’s New Zealand poultry subsidiary Tegel Foods.
A UK private equity group is considering legal action against the previous shareholders of the UK off-licence chain Unwins.
Private equity-backed M&A increased markedly in 2005 with Europe seeing the lion’s share of deal volume.
The Sydney-based private equity firm has made a second bid to take control of Wattyl.
Clayton Dubilier & Rice, The Carlyle Group and Merrill Lynch have completed their buyout of rental car giant Hertz.
The Paris office of the European buyout firm is to sell Marie Brizard to French trade buyer Belvedere.
ABN AMRO Capital has agreed the secondary buyout of UK automotive refinish manufacturer U-POL from Graphite Capital.
Norwegian cable operator UPCN is the European buyout firm’s first acquisition from the Candover 2005 fund.
Boston-based Berkshire Partners is the second US private equity group to make a bet on a Canadian retailer in December, investing in women’s apparel company Aritzia.