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Warburg Pincus’ India Head Quits, Forming New Firm

Posted on: March 5th, 2010

  Here is Khanna's bio, from the Warburg Pincus website: Rajesh Khanna manages the Mumbai office and leads the firm's investment activities in India. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 1995, he w...


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Warburg Pincus May Buy Back $230 Million of Primerica Stock

Posted on: March 3rd, 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC plans to buy as much as $230 million of common stock in Primerica Inc from Citigroup Inc (C.N) in connection with the bank's planned ini...


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Warburg Pincus To Buy Survitec for £280 Million

Posted on: January 29th, 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to buy survival equipment maker Survitec for 280 million pounds ($456 million), marking the third British buyout deal in as many days. Warbu...


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Neiman Marcus Profits Fall, Sees Lasting Slowdown

Posted on: December 9th, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Upscale retailer Neiman Marcus Inc reported sharply lower quarterly profit as worried consumers continued to avoid luxury items amid a slowdown the company expects will last for s...


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Warburg Pincus Overtakes Permira in Survitec Race

Posted on: December 1st, 2009

LONDON (Reuters) - Montagu Private Equity has ended exclusive talks about selling Survitec to rival Permira, leaving Warburg Pincus frontrunner to buy the maker of life rafts and life jackets, people ...


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Weekly Downgrade Wrap-Up

Posted on: November 20th, 2009

As usual, we have a week’s worth of ratings actions on the debt of LBO-backed companies from S&P and Moody’s Investors Service. This week was a busy one for downgrades and debt exchanges, with...


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Fred Hassan Joins Warburg Pincus

Posted on: November 17th, 2009

Fred Hassan has joined Warburg Pincus as a senior advisor, focused on the healthcare sector. He had served as chairman and CEO of Schering-Plough Corp. from 2003 until it was acquired earlier this ...


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Two More U.S.-Backed IPOs In China

Posted on: November 5th, 2009

ZeroIPO released a list of the 28 companies that went public last Friday on ChiNext, the new NASDAQ-style exchange in Shenzen. Intel Capital and a coalition of Chinese investors backed Silver River...


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Ex-Metavante Exec Joins Warburg Pincus

Posted on: October 29th, 2009

Donald Layden, former general counsel of Metavante Corp. and president of Metavante International Group, has joined Warburg Pincus as an advisor, peHUB has learned. Layden recently helped lead nego...


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Builders FirstSource Forges Recap Agreement

Posted on: October 26th, 2009

Builders FirstSource Inc. (Nasdaq: BLDR), a residential construction company, has agreed to a recapitalization that would include a $205 million common stock rights offering and debt exchange. The of...


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BP Looking at Deal for Kosmos

Posted on: October 23rd, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - BP Plc (BP.L) has had talks with Ghana's national oil company about a possible joint bid for Kosmos Energy's stake in the huge Jubilee oilfield off the coast of the country, Bloom...


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Warburg Completes Webster Financial Injection

Posted on: October 16th, 2009

Webster Financial Corp. (NYSE: WBS) has completed its sale of $115 million worth of newly-issued common stock to Warburg Pincus. PRESS RELEASE ebster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS) today ann...


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Spigit Raises $10 Million from Warburg Pincus

Posted on: October 15th, 2009

Spigit, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based provider of an enterprise management platform, has raised $10 million in equity funding from Warburg Pincus. PRESS RELEASE Spigit, provider of the leading innova...


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Report: CNOOC, Ghana Petro In Kosmos Talks

Posted on: October 12th, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - China National Offshore Oil Corp is in talks with Ghana National Petroleum Corp to bid for a stake in a large oil discovery off West Africa, the Wall Street Journal reported on Mo...


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Warburg Pincus Founder Lionel Pincus Passes Away

Posted on: October 12th, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lionel Pincus, founder and former chairman of private equity firm Warburg Pincus, died Saturday in New York after a long illness, the firm said on Sunday. He was 78. Pincus l...


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Warburg Pincus Selling EasyCash to Ingenico

Posted on: September 25th, 2009

Warburg Pincus has agreed to sell German credit card processor EasyCash to Ingenico SA for €290 million. www.easycash.de...


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Investors Sue To Stop Builders FirstSource Recap

Posted on: September 25th, 2009

JLL Partners and Warburg Pincus are facing an investor lawsuit in opposition to their plan to recapitalize  Builders FirstSource Inc. (Nasdaq: BLDR). The two firms currently hold a combined 49.9% st...


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JLL, Warburg Propose Recap for Builders FirstSource

Posted on: September 1st, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two large private equity investors in Builders FirstSource Inc (BLDR.O) on Tuesday unveiled a plan to recapitalize the money-losing provider of residential construction products, ...


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NYSE Buying NYFIX for 95% Premium

Posted on: August 28th, 2009

NEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) - NYSE Euronext (NYX.N) said on Thursday it would buy NYFIX Inc (NYFX.O) to improve its trading platform in a deal that almost doubled the stock price of the provider of sys...


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Bridgepoint Education Files for Secondary Offering

Posted on: August 26th, 2009

Bridgepoint Education (NYSE: BPI), a San Diego-based provider of online and campus universities, has filed to sell 11 million common shares via a secondary public offering. Sellers will include Warbur...


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Warburg Pincus Hires Former Alcoa CEO

Posted on: August 13th, 2009

Alain Belda has joined Warburg Pincus as a managing director, and head of Latin American investing. He is the former CEO of Alcoa, and sits on the boards of such companies as IBM, Citigroup and Rena...


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Warburg Pincus Receives Easycash Bids

Posted on: August 13th, 2009

LONDON (Reuters) - First-round bids are in for the auction of German credit card transaction processing firm easycash, with a number private equity sponsors and trade buyers looking at the asset, bank...


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Warburg Pincus Looks To Exit WNS

Posted on: August 7th, 2009

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Private-equity firm Warburg Pincus is looking to sell its 50.12 percent stake in back-office firm WNS Global Services (WNS.N), the Economic Times said on Friday. New York-listed ...


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Warburg Pincus Injects $115 Million into Webster Financial

Posted on: July 27th, 2009

Webster Financial Corp. (NYSE: WBS) has agreed to sell $115 million worth of newly-issued common stock to Warburg Pincus. The deal will give Warburg a 5.9% pro forma ownership stake, which would ris...


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Suniva Raises $75 Million

Posted on: July 27th, 2009

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. solar startup Suniva Inc said on Monday it completed a $75 million financing round led by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. The funding will be used to expand manufac...


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Integra Telecom Plans Debt-for-Equity Swap

Posted on: July 23rd, 2009

Integra Telecom Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based CLEC, has agreed to a debt restructuring that would give its lenders an undisclosed equity stake. This would mean dilution for existing shareholders Warbur...


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Warburg Pincus Forms Hospital Platform

Posted on: July 17th, 2009

Warburg Pincus has committed up to $300 million to the formation of RegionalCare Hospital Partners, a hospital acquisition platform focused on non-urban markets. It will be led by CEO Martin Rash, for...


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Warburg-Backed CCS Medical Files for Chapter 11

Posted on: July 8th, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Medical supplies provider CCS Medical Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday and said it had reached an agreement with some lenders to cut its debt and impro...


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Report: Warburg Pincus Seeks Bids for Easycash

Posted on: June 22nd, 2009

(Reuters) - U.S. private equity fund Warburg Pincus is seeking bids for Easycash, its German credit card payments processor, Bloomberg said, citing three people familiar with the matter. The sale m...


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Dutch Pension Fund Buys Huiyuan Juice Convertible Bonds

Posted on: June 16th, 2009

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the pension fund for government and education employees in the Netherlands, bought convertible bonds of China's top juice maker Huiyuan (1886.HK), ac...


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Weekly Downgrade Wrap-Up: Where Does Portfolio Company Debt Stand?

Posted on: June 12th, 2009

As usual, we have a week’s worth of ratings actions on the debt of LBO-backed companies. This week we finally say goodbye to Chrysler once and for all, as the company emerges from bankruptcy and Cer...


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Warburg Pincus Pulls Out of Huiyuan Juice

Posted on: June 9th, 2009

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. private equity fund Warburg Pincus has ended its investment in China Huiyuan Juice (1886.HK), becoming the first big stakeholder to pull out of the firm after the collapse o...


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Four Buyout Houses Readying Bids For Wood MacKenzie

Posted on: May 28th, 2009

(Reuters) - Four private equity firms are preparing binding bids for Wood Mackenzie, the energy consulting firm owned by beleaguered rival Candover, ahead of a June 2 deadline, a source familiar with ...


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Bain, KKR Bidding For Gome - Report

Posted on: May 27th, 2009

Bain Capital leads KKR and Warburg Pincus in the bids for Chinese electronics maker Gome, Bloomberg reported. Bain is interested in buying 20% of the business for approximately $500 million. ...


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Warburg Buys Ice Maker

Posted on: May 19th, 2009

Warburg Pincus, a New York private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of Enodis Global Ice Machine, a maker of commercial ice machines, from The Manitowoc Company. The business will be remaine...


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A Limited Partner’s Worst Fear

Posted on: May 12th, 2009

Any private equity investor facing cash constraints would have read this story from Reuters in complete horror. The article, from this morning, proudly declares that private equity is getting ready...


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Warburg Selling Pharma Co. - Source

Posted on: May 1st, 2009

(Reuters) - Warburg Pincus [WP.UL] is seeking a buyer for Archimedes Pharma, the British-based firm with a promising treatment for sudden bouts of pain in cancer sufferers, a person familiar with the ...


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PhotoThera Raises $50 Million

Posted on: April 30th, 2009

PhotoThera Inc., a Carlsbad, Calif.-based developer of transcranial laser therapy for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke, has raised $50 million in Series D funding led by Warburg Pincus. PRESS...


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Q&A With Rosetta Stone Investors on PE Education Plays (Hint: They Might Be Done For)

Posted on: April 16th, 2009

Following my post this morning on ABS Capital's partial exit of Rosetta Stone, I spoke with Phil Clough of ABS Capital. He said private equity activity in the education sector, which has proven to be ...


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What Recession? ABS Capital Is Cashing In On Education

Posted on: April 16th, 2009

The education sector has been good to private equity this year, especially in the case of ABS Capital. The firm is poised to earn at least 6x its money on its investment of Rosetta Stone Inc., a fo...


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Bridgepoint Education Prices Low IPO

Posted on: April 14th, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bridgepoint Education Inc, an operator of online and campus universities, became the third U.S. company to go public this year, but priced its deal 30 percent below the midpoint o...


Erin Griffith

Now We Know: Skype Is Profitable

Posted on: April 14th, 2009

eBay has announced it will take Skype public via IPO in the first half of 2010. The implication for private equity? We now have proof that, at least in this case, the buyer/seller disconnect on pricin...


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Skype’s Been On the Block For Nine Months. That Means It’s Time to Leak

Posted on: April 14th, 2009

Two can play the game of press leaks. If you read between the lines of yesterday’s reports on eBay’s potential divestitures of Skype, it appears both sides of the deal might be using the media to ...


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Fidelity National To Buy Metavante

Posted on: April 2nd, 2009

(Reuters) - Fidelity National Information Services Inc (FIS.N) agreed to buy Metavante Technologies Inc (MV.N) for about $2.94 billion in stock, to create the world's largest provider of integrated pa...


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Bridgepoint Education Sets IPO Terms

Posted on: April 1st, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bridgepoint Education Inc BPI.N disclosed the terms of its $202.5 million IPO on Wednesday, with the deal's pricing expected in mid-April. Bridgepoint, a San Diego-based provid...


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Warburg Pincus Buying Manitowoc’s Ice Machine Biz

Posted on: March 30th, 2009

(Reuters) - Diversified manufacturer Manitowoc Co (MTW.N) said it agreed to sell its ice business to an affiliate of Warburg Pincus for $160 million to meet anti-trust requirements related to its acqu...


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Warburg Pincus Buys Bankrate Stake

Posted on: March 27th, 2009

Warburg Pincus has acquired a 5.45% stake in financial information provider Bankrate Inc. (Nasdaq: RATE) according to a regulatory filing.  It said that it does not plan to seek a board seat. The pos...


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Premier Foods Gets 66% Take-Up for share Issue

Posted on: March 20th, 2009

LONDON (Reuters) - Premier Foods (PFD.L), maker of household favourites like Hovis bread and Branston pickle, has had received subscriptions for 66 percent of the new shares it is issuing to raise 404...


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China Rejects Coke’s $2.4b Bid for Huiyuan Juice

Posted on: March 18th, 2009

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has rejected Coca-Cola's (KO.N) planned $2.4 billion acquisition of top juice maker Huiyuan Juice (1886.HK), saying the deal would have been bad for competition. ...


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Premier Foods Confirms Fundraising

Posted on: March 5th, 2009

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Premier Foods (PFD.L) confirmed plans for a 404 million pounds ($571.3 million) capital raising on Thursday as it looked to reduce its 1.8 billion pound debt pile, easing ...


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It’s Cost Cutting Time at Pension Funds

Posted on: March 4th, 2009

Is this a sign of things to come in LP-Land? The State of Indiana has proposed legislation that will merge the administrative functions and advisory boards of Indiana State Teachers Retirement Fund an...


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Warburg Pincus Considers Premier Foods

Posted on: March 4th, 2009

Warburg Pincus, a global private equity investor, has been named as a possible investor in Premier Foods, a UK food group expected to announce a £400m rights issue this week. Warburg Pincus, which...
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