Sentences with phrase «private equity purchase»

The scary thing is that private equity purchase multiples passed 10x in 2015 and show no signs of going down.

It was the first private equity purchase of a company trading on the London Stock Exchange's FTSE 100 Index, and it was financed with almost 9 billion British pounds of debt.

Comment: Allison took out substantial debt as part of a private equity purchase in March that left it with $ 218.2 million in interest expense this year, according to Investopedia.

Not exact matches

Notably, the private equity fund purchased U.S. supermarket chain Save - a-Lot for US$ 1.37 billion, they picked up the science and intellectual property division of Thomson Reuters for $ 3.5 billion, and raised US$ 5.2 billion with Onex Partners V in July.

For example, China Huadian Corporation could soon purchase private equity firm Terra Firma's wind farm interests for around US$ 500 million.

A new business backed by Quadrant Private Equity and the Perth - based family of Timezone founder Malcolm Steinberg has completed the purchase of Ardent Leisure Group's bowling and entertainment division.

According to Bloomberg, the private equity firm is purchasing 7.5 % of Masan Nutri - Science, the company's meat - producing business, for $ 150 million, which values the unit at $ 2 billion.

«We were not looking for a buyer when they approached us,» recalls Martin Spirig, a partner at Invision Private Equity, the Swiss firm that purchased Feintechnik, along with Austrian - based Alpine Equity Management, in 2007.

In April, Sankaty Advisors, an arm of private equity behemoth Bain Capital, purchased Manischewitz Co., America's dominant matzo manufacturer, with an eye to marketing more kosher foods to non-Jews.

At that point, large private equity buyers begin to enter the picture, because they can purchase the company with borrowed money and use the company's own cash flow to service the debt.

So private equity firms need to use their balance sheet skills and they have to be more ruthless in wringing every last dollar of synergy out of the purchase for a company that they possibly can.

OMERS Private Equity is backing an operation out of Dallas called Caliber Collision, which it purchased in 2013.

And because private equity isn't easily sold off once purchased, investors could be stuck with company shares for years before seeing a payout.

For a private equity fund, that repeat customer allows it to use debt in its purchase of the company.

CASPERSEN and Park Hill Group were working on behalf of Firm - 1 to solicit investors for the loan, but, at some point after Firm - 1 agreed to take the loan, it transpired that Firm - 1 did not need the loan in order to purchase the secondary private equity interests.

The pet supply retailer agreed to be purchased by a private equity consortium following calls by activist investors for a sale.

Most venture - capital firms — Sequoia included — are used to the old equity model in which investors purchase private shares of a company, often while mentoring the founders to help the company reach its full potential.

This Toronto - based private equity firm focuses on digital marketing and media and recently purchased Adweek.

Goldman's private equity arm helped finance Bass Pro Shops» $ 4 billion purchase of Cabela's, and that puts it in a awkward spot.

Only accredited investors can actually purchase equity in a private company.

The company is now controlled by Black Diamond Commercial Finance, a private equity group that purchased the company a decade ago, and has slowly driven it into the ground.

Instead, it was revealed in mid-December that it, alongside two private equity firms, would purchase Kindred in a deal worth $ 4.1 billion.

It went under after two and a half years but not before several of its board members, led by prominent Chicago private equity executive John Canning, purchased The Sun - Times.

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In addition, I would point out that equities are purchased and traded by private individuals, who inherently have time value of money and liquidity preferences that are also priced into equities, given their specific limitations and characteristics (e.g., in the event of a stock market crash, liquidity may disappear at the exact moment it is most desired, and therefore the risk of that lack of liquidity is priced into the equity).

Another year, another dead Canadian tech giant. Blackberry was sold yesterday for scrap to the Toronto private equity firm Fairfax. The purchase price of $ 4.7 billion is essentially valued at its cash of $ 2.6 billion and the value of its patents. Blackberryâ $ ™ s active businesses are being valued at essentially nothing. If Fairfax can stop the -LSB-...]

Naturally, his $ 28 billion purchase of H.J. Heinz with U.S. - Brazilian private - equity group 3G Capital (owner of Burger King and a piece of Anheuser - Busch InBev) on Feb. 14 caused a lot of chatter.

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Neuberger Berman recently purchased a stake of private equity underwriter (PEU) Vector Capital

Neiman, purchased by private - equity firms TPG and Warburg Pincus LLC for $ 4.9 billion in 2005, had been looking for an outright buyer for the retail chain while simultaneously laying the groundwork for an initial public offering of stock.

Wolf Richter is one of the very few who have described very clearly and in layman's terms the usual destiny of a retail chain purchased by a Private Equity (PE) firm: read any of his articles here about the retail meltdown and the dynamics will become depressingly similar after the third «victim».

Last week, speculation was rife over the potential purchase of IWG Plc by Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp and Brookfield Asset Management.

The biggest deal in 2017 was China Investment Corp's near - $ 14 billion purchase of Logicor, a London - based warehouse group, from the U.S. private equity firm Blackstone.

Private equity firm TPG Capital along with PAG Asia Capital and Ontario Teachers Pension Plan purchased DTZ from the Australian public, commercial property firm UGL for about $ 1.1 billion and then merged that with Cassidy Turley, which was acquired for about $ 557 million.

Adjustable rate mortgages can be used to refinance a home with as little as 5 % equity when private mortgage insurance (PMI) is purchased.

Conventional fixed rate mortgages can be used to refinance a home with as little as 3 % equity when private mortgage insurance (PMI) is purchased.

Elsewhere in the liquor industry, private equity - owned Accolade Wines on Monday finalised the purchase of Barossa Valley - based Grant Burge Wines.

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Riesling Power LLC, a company affiliated with the Blackstone Group, a multi-billion-dollar global private equity and investment firm, is requesting state approval to purchase the Cayuga power plant near Ithaca and the Somerset power plant in Western New York.

Instead, a private consortium of investors, including investment bank Goldman Sachs and private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., purchased the power generation company and last week changed its name to Energy Future Holdings Corporation after withdrawing eight of the planned applications.

Other deals included the acquisition of luxury yacht maker Privilege Marine by German private equity firm Aurelius; Italian men's tailor brand Boglioli by Spanish private equity firm PH Asset Management; Douglas strengthened its foothold in Italy through the purchase of two perfume chains (Limoni and La Gardenia); US private investors Rob Gough acquired streetwear brand DOPE and Charles Cohen acquired shoe brand Harrys of London, whilst US private equity firm KPS Capital acquired Taylor Made Golf Company.

In 2011 LVMH private equity fund L Capital Asia purchased a 25.5 percent stake in Genesis Luxury, followed by an additional 14 percent investment in 2012.

Plato Learning, which was recently purchased by Chicago - based private - equity firm Thoma Bravo for $ 143 million, served twice as many students in 2010 as in 2009, says Mary Schneider, director of marketing.

Audi purchased Ducati through its Italian supercar arm Lamborghini, from Milan - based private - equity firm Investindustrial Advisors S.p.A.

Private equity firm Wasserstein & Co. originally purchased W F Howes and Australian sister company Wavesound as well as Recorded Books in January 2014 and then went on to purchase Tantour (Jan 2015) and Highbridge (May 2014).

The purchase from private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, OverDrive's majority owner since 2010, is scheduled to close in April.

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A deal structure with other partners allows Berkshire to more easily make large purchases and resembles a private equity structure.

In purchase or refinance transactions, conforming loans will generally require private mortgage insurance (PMI); unless the borrower has a 20 % equity.

But some may require monthly private mortgage insurance, if the borrower puts less than 20 percent down toward the purchase, or has less than 20 percent equity in a refinancing.