Private Equity
CVC Capital Partners, the pan-European private equity firm, has acquired the printing inks and printing plates unit of Germany’s BASF and will merge it with a Swedish rival.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Texas-based buyout house has agreed to acquire Centennial Puerto Rico Cable TV Corp. in a $155m cash-funded buyout.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Following a transatlantic merger in 2002, Boston’s Audax Group has agreed to sell its vacuum pump platform Nash Elmo to publicly traded Gardner Denver for $223.5m.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The firm announced the hire of Al Stanley and Daniel Farrar, both former General Electric executives, as partners in the Cleveland-based buyout division.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The Chicago buyout behemoth has agreed to buy paper and forest product assets from Boise Cascade, the owner of office supply giant OfficeMax.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
New York firms Lion Chemical Capital and ACI Capital have agreed to buy the elastomers and performance additives business from PolyOne.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
A private equity group consisting of Bain Capital, The Carlyle Group and Spectrum Equity Investors has agreed to buy the world’s third-largest cinema chain.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The New York and London energy specialist is leading The Blackstone Group and strategic partner American Metals & Coal in the acquisition of US coal assets from Germany’s RAG Coal International.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The New York firm will exit the amusement vending machine company to Coinstar in a sale that will see a nearly six times return on equity.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Ripplewood Holdings is backing the spinout of Shaklee, a California-based multilevel marketer of nutrition and filtration products, from Tokyo-based Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical, for approximately $310m.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
