The BC Partners-led consortium has pulled off its YTL3.9 billion bid for Migros Türk in the face of strong competition including The Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It is Europe’s largest deal since credit markets seized up.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The BC Partners-led consortium has pulled off its YTL3.9 billion bid for Migros Türk in the face of strong competition including The Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It is Europe’s largest deal since credit markets seized up.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The largest Islamically funded leveraged buyout debt in the UK has been syndicated by German bank West LB to investors in the Middle East, some of whom do not participate in Western market debt syndication for religious reasons.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Bahrain investor goes large in US * H&Q takes control of Taiwan Sumida Electronics * Fidelity backs online manufacturing marketplace * HSBC buys into Indian software business * Tasameem eats up dim sum restaurants * Rasmala buys into private equity group * CDH, Goldman team up again * Consortium invests $1bn in Indian telecoms * Abraaj nets 75% IRR on internet deal
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Europe appears on the verge of a mezzanine revival.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
The private equity firms bidding for the Turkish supermarket have tabled lower than expected bids, although should the deal complete it will be one of the largest European buyout financed since the problems in the credit markets became apparent.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The Bahrain investment firm has joined the throng of MENA buyout firms continuing doing deals in the West despite the credit crunch.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The Nordic buyout firm’s Skr2 billion recapitalisation of Dacke, two years after the buyout firm acquired the company, is an exception in liquidity-starved credit markets.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The Bahrain investment firm has joined the throng of MENA buyout firms continuing doing deals in the West despite the credit crunch.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
PERE looks back at the year just passed for the trends that mattered most. Today we look at trend number four – sovereign wealth funds have become major forces in global real estate investing.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
