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Online fashion retailer Privalia is buying Germany's Dress for Less in an effort to expand its internet clothing business, Reuters reported, estimating the value of the deal between 150 million and 200 million euro ($210-280 million). Financial terms of the deal were not released, though Privalia has said that it’s raising 88 million euros ($123 million) for the deal from private equity firms General Atlantic, Highland Capital Partners, Index Ventures and Insight Venture Partners, Reuters wrote.
Private equity group PAI Partners said that it is continuing talks with several candidates for its 50% stake in yogurt maker Yoplait, and that it hopes to select a buyer by the end of March, Reuters reported. China’s Bright Foods remains among the contenders for the stake.
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Today's hot rumor has nothing to do with private equity. Well, at least not yet. I'm hearing that Savvis, the information tech services provider, has hired Qatalyst Partners, three sources say. Savvis, which denied in January that it was in sales talks, is now in discussions with some anonymous parties, one person says. Another source says that Qatalyst's hiring isn't "definitive."
Private investors love a bargain right about now. Family Dollar had to reject a $7 billion offer from Nelson Peltz to remain listed, but in the middle market, it appears a little easier to complete a deal. Golden Gate Capital exited its four-year investment in Apogee Retail, the Minnesota-based retailer of secondhand goods, selling the […]
Clearview Capital’s Senior Care Centers of America struck a deal to acquire the adult daycare division of South Jersey Health Systems. The transaction marks the seventh buy for Senior Care since Clearview Capital acquired it in 2005.
Monroe Capital Corp. filed today its registration statement for the IPO of shares of its common stock. It will operate as a publicly traded investment fund managed by an affiliate of Monroe Capital LLC; the offering is to sell $150 million in shares.
From Wisconsin to Washington D.C., budgetary issues are coming to a head. If lawmakers don’t shutter some legislative sessions, protestors threaten to do it for them. It isn’t just Amtrak that needs to be fully funded; as cash-strapped state and local governments look to offset rising pension liabilities and constrained budgets, they will have to […]
Private equity firms Affinity Equity Partners and Unitas Capital are planning to exit Beijing Leader & Harvest Technologies Co. in a deal that could reach up to $500 million, Reuters reported. The firms have hired Deutsche Bank to run a dual-track IPO and auction for the Chinese energy-saving company.
Private equity firm Partners Group and DUET Private Equity invested an undisclosed amount of mezzanine financing in the Magasin du Nord flagship department store property in Copenhagen, the company said. The financing was provided as part of a transaction where Solstra Investment acquired the property.
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