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Oregon Investment Council went beyond the recommendation from its investment staff and pledged $300 million to Lone Star’s third real estate fund, which recently raised its hard-cap to $6.6 billion.
Catterton Partners has made a "significant" investment in PIADA Italian Street Food, a fast-casual Italian eatery based in Columbus, Ohio with restaurants in Ohio and Indiana. PIADA will use the proceeds to continue growing across the country.
TPG Special Situations Partners is partnering with Spain-based CaixaBank in Servihabitat Gestion Inmobiliaria, a real estate services company. TPG Special Situations will own 51 percent of Servihabitat, valued at EURO 310 million, and CaixaBank will hold 49 percent.
Generation Partners is partnering with media company Gannett Co. to spin out digital media business Captivate Network into a separate company co-owned by Gannett and Generation Partners. No financial details of the transaction were disclosed. Marc Kidd has been named Captivate's CEO.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Panasonic Corporation will become joint partners of Panasonic Healthcare in a transaction valued at about $1.67 billion. KKR will own 80 percent of outstanding shares and Panasonic Corporation will own 20 percent. Panasonic and KKR will cooperate in the management of Panasonic Healthcare.
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The Carlyle Group announced a minority investment in Beats Electronics, the audio brand co-founded by Dr. Dre and Interscope Geffen A&M Chairman Jimmy Iovine. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. Carlyle will work with Beats' management to expand the brand and build the business domestically and internationally.
Deal activity in the private equity secondary market this year has been a controversial topic – the overriding opinion being that deal activity has been slow from late last year through the first half.
Patton Boggs has hired the former chair of the private equity practice in the Dallas office of Locke Lord, Gina Betts. She is joined by Brad Hogan, a former associate in the Dallas office of Baker & McKenzie, where he worked in M&A, securities and corporate governance.
BIND Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company with venture backing, raised $70.5 million before underwriting discounts and commissions in its initial public offering of 4,700,000 shares priced at $15 per share.