Balkan telecoms and media company United Group, owned by private equity firm BC Partners, said on Friday it was in talks with Advance Media Group to acquire Bulgaria’s largest multi-platform media company Nova Broadcasting Group. United Group, which acquired...
Blackstone has resumed preparations to make a multi-billion-dollar exit from the Australian logistics market, according to investment banking sources. It is understood that the private equity giant has appointed two firms – JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley – to consider...
Mutual insurer Groupe Macif has stepped up efforts to buy Aviva’s French arm in a deal worth about 3 billion euros after an Allianz-led consortium bowed out amid firm resistance from French unions and local partners, sources told Reuters. Groupe Macif has hired Credit...
The energy metering group Calisen has agreed to be taken private in a £1.4 billion deal ten months after listing in London. The FTSE 250 group’s shares had been languishing well below the 240p price at which it floated in February with a valuation of £1.3 billion. It...
Swiss contract drug maker Lonza has shortlisted German chemicals group Lanxess and private equity groups in the sale of its Lonza Specialty Ingredients (LSI) unit worth more than $3.38 billion, people close to the matter said. Buyout groups Advent, Carlyle, Partners... 