Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Private equity firms bidding for Informa, the events and exhibitions group, are believed to be close to securing financing for the £3 billion acquisition.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
FRANKFURT (AP) — The fashion house , a maker of luxury ready-to-wear clothing for men and women, will be sold to a Japanese apparel group, the private equity firm that owns it said Monday. RelatedThe private equity group, Change Capital Partners, said it reached a deal to sell Jil Sander to the Onward Holdings Company of Tokyo and its European subsidiary, the...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Jil Sander, the minimalist fashion label, was sold for more than £135 million to Japan’s largest clothing group yesterday in the latest sign that the luxury market is proving immune to the economic slowdown.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Lucite, the maker of acrylic products ranging from bus shelters to McDonald's golden arches, has received two $2bn (£1.1bn)-plus takeover approaches from Japan and Saudi Arabia seeking to pre-empt next month's opening of its $500m plant in Singapore.The Southampton-based company, owned since 1999 by UK private equity group Charterhouse Capital Partners, has opened its books up...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Switzerland plans to simplify and harmonise its tax rules for hedge funds and private equity groups, in a belated attempt to win some of the business from London and New York.The move to amend complex or uncompetitive taxation by the country’s 26 cantons marks the first step in a year-old campaign, backed by high-powered lobbies and supported by the government, to improve Switzerland’s...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Shareholders of the troubled data storage technology company may soon be put out of their misery after the company received a bid from a US private equity group
FT.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
A former non-executive director of Reed Elsevier has teamed up with private equity group Apollo to make a bid for the publisher's business information division...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
... make London a more attractive place to live and work in the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games.The group, which will meet once a year, comprises some of the most senior businesspeople from Britain and abroad. Among the other overseas-based members will be Sunil Bharti Mittal, the head of Bharti Enterprises, one of India's largest conglomerates; Herbert Hainer, who runs the German sports goods...
Market Wire - Food and Beverage: Food (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
COLUMBIA, MD (MARKET WIRE) Wythe-Will Distributing, LLC ("Wythe-Will" or the "Company") announced today that JPB Capital Partners has partnered with its management team to acquire the Company from the Hunt Private Equity Group. The management of Wythe-Will Distributing, led by CEO Gordon Angles, will continue to run the operations of the Company and will lead the execution of the...
BankTech (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Launch follows completion of its acquisition by The Carlyle Group
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vector Intersect Security Acquisition Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: VTRQ), a special purpose acquisition company, today announced that it has secured up to $4.75 million through a private placement of common shares and warrants to Catalyst Equity Management, an Israeli-based private equity group that seeks...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Private equity firm Advent International is merging Swiss duty-free retailer Dufry AG with its U.S. airport retailer Hudson by means of a share swap that leaves it a majority stake in Dufry.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Private equity firm Advent International is merging Swiss duty-free retailer Dufry AG with its U.S. airport retailer Hudson by means of a share swap that leaves it a majority stake in Dufry.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Planned €1.8bn-€1.9bn sale would be the latest in a string of deals in the wound-care industry after Bristol-Myers Squibb sold its ConvaTec business to private equity and Johnson & Johnson received a bid for Ethicon
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
BSN Medical, the German bandages maker, has been put up for sale by Montagu, its UK-based private equity owner, which expects the planned €1.8bn-€1.9bn...
