Carlyle buys Italian motorcycle gear maker Dainese

Carlyle buys Italian motorcycle gear maker Dainese

Investment firm Carlyle Group has bought Italian motorcycle equipment company Dainese from Investcorp in a deal valued at $692m including debt, Investcorp said in a statement on Friday.  Carlyle said it wanted to expand the business in China and the United States by...
Brookfield Consortium’s Improved Offer for AGL Is Rejected

Brookfield Consortium’s Improved Offer for AGL Is Rejected

Australian utility AGL Energy rejected an improved multibillion-dollar takeover approach from Brookfield Asset Management and billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, who wanted to accelerate the firm’s transition to net-zero emissions by more than a decade. The consortium...
Private equity firms vie for media rights of France’s Ligue 1

Private equity firms vie for media rights of France’s Ligue 1

Media rights to European soccer leagues are an increasingly coveted prize for global private equity firms making a play for exposure in the international world of sports. In one of the latest bids, firms including CVC Capital Partners, Silver Lake, Hellman &...
Buyout giant KKR backs new $650m industrial fund

Buyout giant KKR backs new $650m industrial fund

Busy Sydney fund manager Centennial Property Group is tapping into the commercial real estate zeitgeist, putting together a $650m vehicle, backed by private equity giant KKR, that will develop up and hold warehouse and logistics sites. The past two years of the...