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Buyout shop CVC will invest 2.35 trillion rupiah ($269 million) in the cable TV and internet units of Indonesian media firm PT First Media, Reuters reported. The strategic partnership deal was announced Tuesday.
The Internet age is automating everything from postal workers to bank tellers to drive-thru order-takers. Are the bankers next? Today, CapitalSphere, which operates from offices in New York and San Diego, revealed it will substantially expand its proprietary M&A platform to include a broader base of clients, both buyers and sellers. Already its marketplace hosts […]
California-based Appirio has acquired Infowelders, the salesforce.com consultancy business specializing on sales and services cloud development. Appiro is backed by Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital.
Eric Mandl has joined Evercore Partners where he will be a senior MD advising on large cap technology and software and internet sectors. Mandl was most recently the global head of software and enterprise banking at UBS.
How strong are the leveraged loan markets? In the past year, KPS Capital Partners and other investors has received more than $300 million in cash distributions from portfolio company HHI Group Holdings. The latest payout came today when the PE firm announced HHI had completed a $425 million recap. The debt package included a $100 million credit facility and $325 million term loan. HHI used the proceeds to fund a $100 million cash payout to stockholders, to refinance debt and to fund its continued growth.
FRANKFURT, March 21 (Reuters) – Media mogul John Malone’s Liberty Global will buy Kabel BW after private equity firm CVC declined to raise its offer in a fierce battle for the German cable operator. The deal values Kabel Baden Wuerttemberg at 3.16 billion euros ($4.48 billion), Swedish buyout firm EQT said Monday. Over the weekend, […]
Pennsylvania-based private equity firm L2 Capital Partners will acquire Landfill Service Corp., a New York-based supplier of landfill products and equipment. McGladrey Capital Markets worked on the transaction and was exclusive advisor to Landfill Service Corp. Terms of the transaction were not publicized.
Hilltop Holdings and Oak Hill Capital have agreed to each invest $50 million via a loan to SWS Group. Hilltop and Oak Hill will each end up owning about 17% of SWS Group, a broker dealer, according to a statement said Monday. Stephens Inc. acted as financial advisor to each of Hilltop and Oak Hill Capital, while Sandler O'Neill + Partners was financial advisor to SWS Group.
March 21 (Reuters) - Chipmaker NetLogic Microsystems Inc said it will buy a privately held fabless semiconductor provider for an initial $77 million in cash, to expand its footprint in the 4G long-term evolution (LTE) market. Optichron Inc's advanced processors will support wider signal bandwidth, spectrum maximization and power efficiency for carriers deploying next-generation LTE, NetLogic said. "The exponential growth in mobile data traffic in the next five years, coupled with global spectrum scarcity, are forcing service providers and operators worldwide to push the limits on capacity and throughput for their limited spectrum," NetLogic said in a statement.