NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Pizza Kitchen Inc (CPKI.O) is seeking buyers for the restaurant chain, a source familiar with the deal said, sending its shares up as much as 17 percent on Friday. The chain known for gourmet hearth-baked pizzas and creative salads is valued at just over $500 million based on Friday’s […]
PARIS (Reuters) – AXA Private Equity (AXAF.PA) is in talks to buy tour operator Go Voyages from Groupe Arnault and Belgian businessman Albert Frere, Le Figaro newspaper reported. The online seller of holidays and flights would be worth between 300 million euros and 350 million euros ($401 million to $468 million), Le Figaro said. AXA […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Buyout firm Blackstone (BX.N) and charity the Wellcome Trust have launched a joint bid for bank branches being sold by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. The bid from Blackstone and the Wellcome Trust, a British charitable foundation which manages a 13 billion pound […]
VantaCore Partners, an acquisition platform focused on core mineral assets like quarries, has raised $100 million in private equity funding from Trilantic Capital Partners. It also has secured a $15 million acquisition facility and $27 million senior secured credit facility from PNC. VantaCore previously raised funding from Kayne Anderson, Tortoise Capital Resources Corp. and Hartz Capital Investments.
Court Square Capital Partners has acquired The Harvard Drug Group from H.I.G. Capital for an undisclosed amount. Harvard Drug is a Livonia, Mich.-based distributor of generic pharmaceuticals, with nearly $500 million in annual sales.
Summit Partners has invested $30 million into Indian seed company Krishidhan Seeds Ltd., in exchange for a minority ownership stake.
(Reuters) – U.S. private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co [KKR.UL] and Bain Capital are preparing for initial public offerings of Toys “R” Us and NXP Semiconductors , the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the deals. Dutch semiconductor company NXP, which was spun off from Philips Electronics (PHG.AS) in 2006, is […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Cos, in a partnership with movie producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein, has offered to pay $600 million for Walt Disney Co’s (DIS.N) Miramax, a source with knowledge of the situation said on Thursday, joining a small pool of bidders for the art-house studio. Yucaipa could use […]
Studio Moderna Holdings, an electronics and consumer products retailer in Central and Eastern Europe, has raised an undisclosed amount of minority funding co-led by Insight Venture Partners and Templeton Strategic Emerging Markets. JH Partners also participated.
DynaVox Inc., a Pittsburgh-based maker of software and devices that assist people in overcoming speech, has set its IPO terms to 9.375 million shares being offered at between $15 and $17 per shares. It plans to trade on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol DVOX, with Piper Jaffray and Jefferies & Co. serving as co-lead underwriters. […]