The venture partnership between Boston’s Thomas H. Lee Partners and Putnam Investments agrees to take private a Filipino business outsourcing company.
The management buyout of Hart Publications makes for yet another specialty publisher deal by a private equity firm as of late.
The beleaguered manufacturing conglomerate offers up the security company to Carlyle, Wachovia and Spire for $125.5m.
Electra Partners has announced the leveraged buyout of Diana Ingredients, a BNP Paribas holding company managed by PAI Partners.
Reports say Blackstone Group’s €3.1 billion public-to-private takeover of German chemicals logistics business Celanese is being investigated by stock market regulator BaFin.
Granville Baird Capital Partners claims to have made a return of approximately three times its original investment in Alukon Holdings through a sale to AXA Private Equity.
The Boston firm acquires Sunny Delight and Punica ‘juice-based’ drinks from consumer giant Procter & Gamble.
The New York buyout firm has turned a $150m investment in a pharmacy benefit manager into an 81 percent IRR winner.
The largest mezzanine fund raised in Canada brings capital managed by the Toronto-based private equity arm of TD Bank Financial to about C$2.6bn.
Japanese broker Nikko Cordial has teamed up with US financial conglomerate Citigroup to launch a new $950m buyout fund targeting Japanese companies.