Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2024

Axel Springer Chief Executive Mathias Doepfner and private equity group KKR KKR.N are in talks to break up the media conglomerate, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. A potential deal would separate the group’s media assets from its digital classifieds operation, the report said.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Hahn & Co, a South Korean private equity firm founded by former Morgan Stanley banker Scott Sang-Won Hahn, has raised $3.4bn for a new buyout fund, making it the largest single-country focused vehicle in Asia this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 7, 2023

Toshiba said on Monday a group led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) would launch a $14bn tender offer on Aug 8th to take the industrial conglomerate private and put it in domestic hands. It was originally scheduled to start in late July, but was pushed back due to a regulatory delay.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 17, 2024

investment fund Carlyle Group is studying around 300 Japanese businesses as part of its pipeline, a sign of the continuing boom in private equity deals in the country. Selling to such alternative asset managers is increasingly seen as a palatable way for companies to exit noncore businesses or go private.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 13, 2023

It was part of British conglomerate Granada Group and later acquired by private equity firm Permia in 2003 before being sold to Dubai International Capital for £675m in 2006. It was then taken over by GoldenTree in 2012. Source: Microsoft Start Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2024

The dividends Berkshire's collected from the stocks it's holding still don't come close to fully explaining why the fund is doing so well when the stocks it's holding aren't. The next biggest three -- Coca-Cola, Chevron (NYSE: CVX) , and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) -- make up another 16% of the fund's picks. 3-Year Chg.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The buyout firm is seeking an equity value of more than $2bn for SK Shipping in a deal, according to the people. The asset has drawn preliminary interest from investors including infrastructure-focused funds, the people said. It counts more than $10.5bn of private equity assets under management. Hahn & Co.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Indian conglomerate Tata Group-owned Tata Consumer Products is reportedly in talks to acquire stakes in snack maker Haldiram’s. The report added that Haldiram’s is also engaging with private equity firms, including Bain Capital, to sell a 10% stake. read more Ascend Elements’ $542M Funding will Boost U.S.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It recently sent the prospectus of Londian Wason, which owns 100% of China-based Wason Copper Foil, to multiple global private equity firms. 2 conglomerate has been streamlining its investment portfolios to enhance its financial health and raise funding for new growth drivers such as AI, biotech and semiconductors.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

SellerX, once valued at $1 billion, was among dozens of startups with audacious plans to become digital age consumer conglomerates. BlackRock and Victory Park Capital provided loans to multiple firms. billion private credit fund A unit of Singapore’s state-owned investor Temasek Holdings Pte. has raised $1.7

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Epiris and Newlat are said to have seen off competition from rival bidders including Lone Star Funds, the Texas-based private equity firm, and One Rock Capital Partners, another financial investor. An earlier process conducted this year failed to draw interest at a sufficiently attractive price.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Disney has been exploring options to sell or find a partner for its India assets, Reuters reported in July, and has held talks with billionaires Gautam Adani and Sun TV Network-owner Kalanithi Maran as well as private equity firm Blackstone, according to various media reports. company’s Indian business, Bloomberg reported.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 6, 2023

billion for the Wilmington-headquartered Solenis that is owned by the New York private equity firm Platinum Equity. Read more Notion hits €300m for its fifth fund, but is unimpressed by big rounds into Generative AI startups When it first appeared on the scene around ten years ago, Notion Capital was poised to take.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

Speaking to PEI, Teisseire noted “a general interest across platforms, both private equity and private debt”, though the firm’s focus in the short term would most likely be on the latter. There is currently no set headcount target for the new North Asia branch.

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FinSMEs

JUNE 6, 2024

Yukon Partners, a Minneapolis, Boston, and West Palm Beach based private equity firm, closed Yukon Capital Partners V, L.P., and its associated parallel funds with total commitments of $765.2m. Fund V will provide mezzanine […] The post Yukon Partners Secures $2.6

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For instance, AT&T sold a 30% stake in DirecTV to a private equity firm in 2021 for $7.8 billion, putting behind it the last vestige of its attempt to become an entertainment conglomerate. Those funds will help strengthen AT&T's balance sheet. putting it on track to reach a reasonable 2.5

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Layton explains how the firm is more like a large industrial conglomerate running wholly owned subsidiaries than a private equity firm buying firms to flip them at a profit. Layton talks about why he banned the word “Deal” from the company.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

Peter Mallouk : I think we were ahead of the game in a lot of things that now a lot of firms have started to do. We were passive on the equity side. Like if you look here 20 years later, where did the market go on the equity side? Because this isn’t like, we’re not a hedge fund, we’re not a mutual fund.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. Well, there were only 20 private equity firms in the world in 1984. KLINSKY: Yeah. There are now over 5,000.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

RITHOLTZ: — firms or private equity firms? I really wanted to learn how to invest money, not just be an advisor, and I thought private equity was cool because you weren’t at the whim of the market. And I think fundamentals mattered more in private equity than they did in public market investing.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

. ~~~ BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest from the world of private markets, the Partners Group is probably the largest private equity firm you’ve never heard of, perhaps because they were originally headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. in Colorado.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 30, 2025

The founding family of Seven & i is in talks with Thailands Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group to secure funding for a management buyout aimed at blocking a $47bn takeover bid from Alimentation Couche-Tard. Sources indicate that private equity firms KKR and Bain Capital have each submitted bids exceeding $5bn for this spin-off.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 28, 2025

Global private equity firms Warburg Pincus, CVC Capital Partners, and TPG are vying to acquire a stake in Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings, the largest private hospital operator in the Philippines. The transaction, estimated at $3bn, highlights growing private equity interest in Southeast Asias expanding healthcare market.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 27, 2025

Its recent outreach highlights continued pressure on Bayer to break up its conglomerate structure. The discussions come amid renewed investor interest in consumer health assets. Bayers over-the-counter business, which includes brands like Aspirin, Claritin, and Alka-Seltzer, reported 5.9bn in revenue and 1.3bn in EBITDA in 2024.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 31, 2025

The deal was executed through Hahn & Companys fourth private equity vehicle, Fund IV, which closed last year at approximately 4.7tn. Hahn & Company said it remains committed to preserving employment at SK Specialty and will continue investing to enhance the firms technological edge and global competitiveness.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Selling the trophy asset ranks among other successful exits for the US firm in China, including its sale of China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co. Private equity firms have also had to contend with a slump in public markets that has subdued asset valuations, making it difficult to offload once-promising investments in the country.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It seems like the post-war era really began the modern period of General Electric becoming a dominant conglomerate. And Paul was one of the founders of a private equity firm, Providence Equity Partners. And you know, once you make the creditors whole, then you can control the equity. Fair statement?

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