Private Equity Archive » June, 2012

Private Equity - June, 2012

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• Obscure UK PE Firm Bids $1.7B For Australian Retail Co.
• Carlyle Picks Up Majority Stake In Italian Clothing Co.
• Law360's Global 20 Firms Open Up New Frontiers
• Simpson Thacher Guides Melrose On $2.3B Gas Meter Co. Buy
• Pacific Equity Scoops Up Nestle Australia Ice Cream Biz
• Montagu To Spend $541M On Dairy Crest's Food Spreads
• ACA Ruling Heats Up Already-Hopping Health Deals Scene
• Texas Golf Retailer's Shareholders Sue To Block $96M Sale
• Cooley Helps IVP Close Biggest-Ever $1B Venture Fund
• Veolia Sheds UK Water Biz In $2B Deal To Shave Debt
• European Regulators Propose Caps On Fund Managers' Pay
• Judge Rips Vector's Reading Of Goodrich Nondisclosure Deal
• Bankrupt Northstar Gets Go-Ahead To Auction Assets
• SEC Sues Falcone Over Market Manipulation, $113M Loan
• With $300M, VC Firm Braemar Energy Closes 3rd Fund
• Tile Shop To Go Public In $500M Deal With JW Childs Unit
• KKR To Pay $350M For Majority Stake In Australian Health Co.
• SEC To Sue Harbinger After Settlement Talks Fizzle
• Defense Co. Can't Shake Claims It Bilked PE Firm In Merger
• Liberty, PE Partners Pay $585M For Puerto Rican Cable Giant
• PE Firm Versa Seeks Info On Rival's Bid For Chopper Parts Co.
• IntegraMed Investor Says $170M Sagard Buyout Price Too Low
• Perkins Coie Gains Ex-Kirkland Private Equity Lifer
• E. Oliver Exec Can't Shake $37.5M Judgment In Guaranty Suit
• KKR Closes $4B Infrastructure, Natural Resources Funds
• American Securities Raises $3.6B For Latest PE Fund
• The Role Of IP In Medical Device Investments
• Lehman Sues To Keep Stake In $63M Foreclosed Hotel Loan
• Cinram Units Enter Ch. 15 In Del. As Part Of $82M Sale
• KKR Raises $3B, Opens New Office To Extend Reach In Asia
• Foes Of $2B Blackstone Line Muzzled Before Key Hearings
• Weighing Reverse Mergers For Private Chinese Cos.
• Cinven Enters Turkey With 2 Major Investments
• Hi-Mart Dubs MBK Preferred Bidder For $1B Majority Stake
• $2.3B Offer For Quest Trumps Insight, Vector Bid
• Lightyear Capital To Pay $335M For FIS Health Benefits Biz
• Latham Lures IP, Tech Licensing Ace From Bingham
• OPIC OKs $66M In Financing For Brazilian Businesses
• GCs Name Law Firms With Top Shelf Brands
• BRS Settles Contract Dispute With Insurance Broker
• Bain Bags $2B Stake In Japanese TV Channel From Sumitomo
• Eye On Tech Sector — 2012
• NY Court Rejects Honeywell's $36M Oaktree Royalty Claims
• Creditors Convince RG Steel To Extend Sale Process
• NY Court Overturns Icahn's Federal-Mogul Investment Suit Win
• E. Oliver Founder On Hook For $45M Loan, NY Court Says
• Citi-Led Housing Fund Venture Buys Harlem's Savoy Park
• Cabot Plunks Down $1.1B For Specialty Chemical Co.
• Blackstone, DDR Venture Snags $1.4B Elbit Retail Portfolio
• Calif. PE Firm Vector Snags $242M Stake In Technicolor
• $200M SEC Boost Fails In House Committee
• Joint Ventures In China: What Every CEO Should Know
• $2.2B Insight-Vector Offer Wins Over Quest
• Chevron Joins Kosmos In Offshore Suriname Exploration
• WPP Buys PE-Backed Digital Marketer AKQA Holdings
• SEC Issues Details On Form PF Disclosure Requirements
• Cardinal Growth Accused Of Stiffing Ex-Exec On Pay
• Simpson Thacher Guides KKR In Prisma Capital Buy
• Nationstar, Berkshire Hathaway Named ResCap Stalking Horses
• Plaintiffs And The ABCs (Anywhere But Chancery)
• RG Steel Creditors Cry Foul Over Asset 'Fire Sale'
• Index Launches €350M Fund With Eye On Tech Sector
• Lichtenstein Sues Willkie Over $100M Extended Stay Penalty
• Irish Fund Takes Reins Of 104-MW Viridian Wind Portfolio
• Nelson Mullins Adds Partners From Greenberg, K&L Gates
• CVC Continues Sell-Down In Formula One After Axed IPO
• M&A Perspectives: How To Sandbag In NY, London, Istanbul
• AXA Rakes In $8B To Buy Bank Private Equity Portfolios
• PE Firm Melrose Eyes $2.3B Buyout Of Gas Meter Co. Elster
• Oaktree Halts Jakks Talks Over Standstill Pact Terms
• VisionChina Can't Avoid $60M Payment To PE Firms
• Bankrupt NewPage Cuts New Deal With Unions
• Northstar USA Gets Thumbs-Up For $9M DIP Lifeline
• Skadden Steers Valeant To $312M Deal For Oral Care Co.
• MHR Fund Puts Up $82M For 14% Stake In Truck Maker
• Considerations When Investing In 3rd-Party Logistics Cos.
• Ashurst Adds 2 Former Dewey Partners To Frankfurt Office
• Arkansas Best Delivers $180M Deal For Transport Co.
• Nokia Sells Luxury Phone Unit To EQT In Cost-Slashing Push
• New $2.15B Bid For Quest Tops Insight's Offer
• Pre-Signing Auction Not Necessarily Required
• Dorsey Names Ex-Cadwalader Atty Head Of PE Practice In NY
• Vista Equity Partners Adds Bullhorn Inc. To Software Buys
• Interline Investor Challenges $1B Private Equity Buyout
• Sunoco, Carlyle Steam Forward On Philly Refinery Deal
• IHS Shells Out $135M For Warburg-Owned Engineering Info Co.
• PE Fund Sues Bank For $10M Over $4M Asset Freeze
• An Overview Of 1st-Out Revolvers
• Norwest Firms Up Health Industry Foothold With 2 Buys
• LLR Partners Invests in Facebook's Messaging Provider
• Schulte Roth & Zabel Adds Ex-Dewey PE Partner In London
• WilmerHale Nabs Hedge Fund Guru From Cadwalader
• Apax, Bain Eye $1.4B Minority Stake Buy In Genpact
• Pemco Cleared To Sell Assets To Singapore Co. For $50M
• Car Hauler Allied Systems Secures $20M DIP Package
• MIG Capital Builds Texas Holdings With Austin Complex
• NewPage Aims To Block Creditor Suit Over Purchase Of Rival
• Lilly Adds $20M To Investment In Chinese Drugmaker
• K&L Gates Aids Charlotte PE Firm On Urgent Care Co. Buy
• Ex-Goldman Exec To Start New PE Municipal Market Fund
• BMC Urges Shareholders To Reject Elliott Director Picks
• Accel Invests $30M In Canadian Retail Software Co.
• KB Toys And The Trade Claims Playing Field
• Case Study ASB Allegiance V. Scion Breckenridge
• Baker & McKenzie Lures Away Kirkland Latin America PE Pro
• Starwood Capital Snags 21-Story Midtown NYC Office
• Permira Pays $500M For Material Handling Systems Co.
• Greenberg Adds Health Dealmaker To Orange County Office
• Sagard Capital's $170M Buy To Take IntegraMed Private
• OMERS PE Unit Pays $321M For UK Special Care Co.
• Apax, JMI Put Up $1B For Energy Software Co.
• EQT Inks $2.25B Deal For Bandage Maker BSN Medical
• Chesapeake Pins Hopes On Fire Sale To Fix $14B Shortfall
• Leonard Green, TPG Pay $1.7B For Wash. Thrift Store Chain
• Ropes & Gray Aids HIG Buy Of Bankrupt Arctic Glacier
• Lenders W&D, CWCapital Join Forces In $220M Merger
• Pangea Exec Used Investment As 'Piggy Bank,' $20M Suit Says
• Sports Retailer Expands With $150M Equity Investment
• Best Buy Founder Steps Down, Mulling Sale Of His 20% Stake
• Apollo, Glebe Plan $93M Remodeling For Former Reuters Center
• Kenya's UAP Gets $56M PE Boost To Fuel African Expansion
• Blackstone Again Dodges Junk Insurance Suit, For Now
• Calif. Firm Touts 'Strong Demand' For $205M Tech Fund
• Kirkland Represents Bregal On $500M Private Equity Fund
• Sea Dragon Burned Oil Investor Holding $40M Contract: Suit
• Lloyds Unloads $1.3B Australia RE Loan Portfolio For $600M
• Goldman, Carlyle Sell Off $2B Worth Of Kinder Holdings
• Chesapeake Discussing $4B Sale Of Midstream Pipelines
• Catterton Funds Gourmet Chain's West Coast Expansion
• How New FATCA Regs Affect Private Investment Funds
• Norcast Sues PE Firm For Selling Unit To Rival For $25M Fee
• Enviros Rip Entergy's Fish Worries In Blackstone Project Feud
• PE Firm, Construction Co. Launch $500M Midstream JV
• Yotel Kicks Off $250M Fund To Spur $650M In Hotel Projects
• Blackstone, Con Ed Reach Deal Over $11B Transmission Project
• Winston & Strawn Adds Proskauer Fund Ace To PE Team
• Nordson Puts Down $200M For Plastics Producer
• Thomas H. Lee Takes $2.7B Majority Stake In Party City
• SEC Taps 2 New Deputies For Asset Management Unit
• Womble Carlyle Propels BNC Bancorp's $35M First Trust Buy
• SPACs Feel Pressure To Spend As Time Slips Away
• Vinson Guides Morgan Stanley PE Unit's $130M Oil Co. Buy
• WellPoint Scoops Up 1-800 CONTACTS From Fenway Partners
• Canada's Bell, Others Pay $1B For Data Center Network Q9
• Talbots Investor Challenges $369M Sycamore Buyout
• Kilroy Snags $330M Worth Of Seattle Office Properties
• 8 Trends In Venture Capital 2012
• Warburg Pincus Pays $101M For 53% Stake In Indian Lender
• Pemco Creditors Seek To Recover 'Fraudulent' Fees
• Brookfield Global RE Fund Nets $2B At First Closing
• Directors, Bank Want Out Of Puda Coal Securities Fraud Suit
• Thayer Forms PE-Backed Hospitality Investment Venture
• Versa Nabs 4 Local Newspapers From Freedom Communications
• Australia's ASX Mulling $1.4B Share Registry Buyback
• Debevoise Guides Verizon In $612M Buy Of Hughes Telematics