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A high-stakes clash between private equity titans KKR and Bain Capital over a $4bn buyout of Fuji Soft is reshaping the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Japan, and could become a blueprint for more aggressive dealmaking in the country, according to a report by the Financial Times. On Friday, KKR announced a tender offer of JPY9,451 per share for Fuji Soft, narrowly surpassing Bain’s competing bid by JPY1.
Dividends have served me very well so far in my life -- and I'm not even retired yet. Like many people, I underestimated them for a long time. They just came along with many of the stocks I bought. I've had multiyear periods when I was plowing as much money as I could into my long-term portfolio, and periods when I just didn't have much or any extra cash to invest.
European mid-market private equity firm Inflexion is to acquire Finanzen.net Group (Finanzen), a digital broker and market financial information portal in the DACH region, from Axel Springer, in partnership with the company’s founders. The investment is being made by Inflexion’s Buyout Fund VI and is the second investment in the DACH region after Tierarzt Plus Partner since Inflexion opened its office in Frankfurt earlier this year.
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Image source: Getty Images Even before Thanksgiving gets here, most people's eyes are already on Christmas. That's partially because Christmas is a lot easier to commercialize. But retailers have found one way to draw in customers at Thanksgiving the last few years, and that's by offering special Thanksgiving meal deals. Many major retailers, including Costco, Target, and Sam's Club, are getting in on the action.
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Conduktor, a NYC-based provider of an Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform specialized in data streaming, raised $30M in Series B funding. The round was led by RTP Global, with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Ansa, and Accel who led Conduktor’s Series A round. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate expansion […] The post Conduktor Closes $30M Series B Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.
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Canadian private equity firm Brookfield is reportedly considering a €7bn ($7.4bn) takeover bid for Spanish pharmaceutical company Grifols and is completing due diligence on the plasma-based drugmaker, according to a report by El Confidencial. Brookfield is said to be evaluating a public tender offer at €10.5 per share, slightly below Grifols’ last closing price of €11.125 on Friday.
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Brookfield is reportedly prepping a roughly €7bn offer for Spanish drugmaker Grifols in the wake of the company suffering a share slump. The post Brookfield said to near €7bn Grifols offer, Astorg eyes €2.5bn Anaqua sale to Nordic Capital appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.
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