Terra Firma Capital Partners is set to sign terms to acquire German property group Viterra for €7 billion in Europe’s largest private equity deal to date.
A private equity consortium led by Macquarie Capital has acquired pan-European directories group Yellow Brick Road, delivering a 110% IRR for owners 3i and Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
The European private equity firm has launched a €1.4bn agreed takeover bid for Spanish clothing retailer Cortefiel on top of its bid for cable and wireless group Auna.
The Blackstone Group sold CD and DVD direct retailer Columbia House to media company Bertelsmann for $400m.
Six months after its acquisition of New Skies Satellites, The Blackstone Group has taken the satellite operator public in a $200m IPO, valuing the firm’s equity at almost three times its initial investment.
The acquisition of a 30 percent stake in Israeli telecoms company Bezeq by a private equity consortium is the largest privatisation seen in the country so far this decade.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have posted a 14-fold return on their investment in Ping An, the Chinese life assurance firm, following the sale of their stakes to HSBC.
The Dallas private equity firm has agreed to acquire Wisconsin-based Sturm Foods from Midwest middle market firm Mason Wells.
San Francisco’s Fremont Partners has agreed to sell Kerr Group to Berry Plastics, held by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and JPMorgan Partners.
Global buyout firm Warburg Pincus has acquired the heading products company and announced the hire of Rajiv Ghatalia as managing director in the Hong Kong office.