James Taylor
Taiwanese chip-testing company ASE, which yesterday forced The Carlyle Group to abandon a $6 billion buyout offer, is reportedly attracting the attention of four new suitors.
UK-based Coller Capital has closed a $4.5 billion secondaries fund, the biggest ever raised. The fund was nonetheless substantially over-subscribed.
A Terra Firma-led consortium has made a £10.85 billion buyout offer for Alliance Boots, just hours after the UK chemist accepted a sweetened £10.6 billion bid from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. The company’s share price soared as investors anticipated a bidding war.
Orica, an Australia-listed explosive maker, has seen its share prices jump by more than twenty percent after rejecting a A$10 billion proposal from a private equity consortium.
Taiwanese chip-testing company ASE, which yesterday forced The Carlyle Group to abandon a $6 billion buyout offer, is reportedly attracting the attention of four new suitors.
UK-based Coller Capital has closed a $4.5 billion secondaries fund, the biggest ever raised. The fund was nonetheless substantially over-subscribed.
A Terra Firma-led consortium has made a £10.85 billion buyout offer for Alliance Boots, just hours after the UK chemist accepted a sweetened £10.6 billion bid from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. The company’s share price soared as investors anticipated a bidding war.
Orica, an Australia-listed explosive maker, has seen its share prices jump by more than twenty percent after rejecting a A$10 billion proposal from a private equity consortium.
US media and communications specialist Veronis Suhler Stevenson is buying a minority stake in Zed, a leading Spanish mobile content provider valued at about €400 million. It is the firm’s first investment in the country.
US investment group Fortress may have to go head-to head with US hedge fund Polygon for a second time, over the buyout of London-listed reinsurer Alea.