The Dell buyout saga continues apace, with activist investor Carl Icahn teaming up with Southeastern Asset Management to provide yet another alternative to founder Michael Dell's $24.4bn (£15.9bn) offer to buy back his company. In a ...
Tags: Icahn, Dell, Computer Products
As part of Microsoft's loan of $2 billion to a group trying to buy PC maker Dell, the two companies must modify the payment terms of Dell's current agreements with Microsoft, a document filed with U.S. regulators said. CEO and founder ...
Earthbound Farm Organic, a leading grower of organic produce in the US, is evaluating plans to sell the company, which is valued at approximately $700m. Earthbound Farm Organic has appointed Barclays to sell the company. The sale process ...
Tags: Earthbound Farm, Food
Canada-based Onex Corp. has agreed to buy Nielsen Expositions, the owner of Interbike and the Outdoor Retailer shows, from Nielsen Holdings for $950 million. Interbike officials said they expected no immediate changes as a result of the ...
Private equity firm Sun Capital Partners has announced merging of five of its plastic packaging portfolio companies to form a single company Exopack Holdings, which will be based in Luxembourg. The combined revenue of all the merging ...
Tags: Sun Capital, Plastic Packaging
French private equity firm PAI Partners has agreed to acquire Europe's leading private-label ice cream maker R&R Ice Cream from Oaktree Capital in a deal worth EUR850m. The acquisition is the first purchase in the food industry for PAI ...
Tags: R&R Ice Cream, Food
Plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (a Bridgepoint portfolio company) has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. The award recognizes the ...
Tags: SPTS, Electronics
New York-based private equity firm, Aquiline Capital Partners has completed the purchase of Equity Insurance Group from Insurance Australia Group. Based in the UK, Equity Insurance is one of the ten largest motor insurance syndicate at ...
Tags: Aquiline Capital, Equity Insurance
Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than a month after the private-equity fund manager said it was planning to top an offer from founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners. In the so-called ...
Tags: DELL, Blackstone
Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than a month after the private-equity fund manager said it was planning to top an offer from founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners. In the so-called ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
In another time the $5.07 billion price tag for NSW ports sold last Friday might have been the sort of deal to get a roll on for the market's deal junkies. After all, it's not often the market estimates for the price -- $2.5bn to $3bn -- ...
Tags: NSW, market estimates
Private equity firm Water Street Healthcare Partners has invested in CCBR-SYNARC, to expand its global presence in the pharmaceutical services sector. The investment marks the health care firm's first investment from its new fund, Water ...
Burger King chief executive officer Bernardo Hees will become the next chief of ketchup producer HJ Heinz, following its $28bn acquisition by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian private-equity firm 3G Capital. However, ...
Tags: Bernardo Hees, HJ Heinz
AssuredPartners of Florida has acquired all of the assets of Alan James Insurance, an insurance broker specializing in insurance products and services designed for the south-Florida real estate market. The acquirer expects that the ...
Tags: Insurance, insurance broker, AssuredPartners
Plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK, has been shortlisted for the annual Management Team Awards organized by British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association ...