The Nordic-based private equity firm has completed its sixth deal in the Benelux region, acquiring two subsidiaries from the retail multinational.
Minneapolis private equity group Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison has clinched a deal to take Transport Corp. of America private, rebounding quickly from its missed ShopKo buyout.
Hellman & Friedman and Texas Pacific Group have agreed to a roughly $1.5 billion deal to acquire a 60 percent stake in Linsco/Private Ledger, an independent broker. The transaction, coming on the heels of the Refco implosion, reaffirms private equity’s commitment to the financial services space.
The European private equity arm of Bank of America has generated a six times return on the sale of the UK lingerie specialist.
The garden centres firm has terminated discussions with Cinven following the withdrawal of a bid believed to have had the support of Wyevale’s largest shareholder.
Trade buyers have beaten off competition from private equity firms to acquire the Australian pub and poker machine operator.
After successive hurricanes have battered the Southern parts of the US, Stone Point, the team of former Marsh private equity pros, is getting back into the reinsurance business with the acquisition of a Chubb subsidiary.
Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee decided to walk away from their $1.5bn School Specialty acquisition. The two sides had been renegotiating after the senior lenders that had originally committed to financing the deal balked at the end of last month.
The Central and Eastern Europe focused firm has fully divested its stake in the Slovakian mobile operator.
The US buyout outfit has completed what is believed to be the first acquisition of a controlling interest in a former Chinese state-owned enterprise by a private equity firm.