Travel and real-estate company Cendant announced plans to sell its travel distribution services subsidiary Travelport—which includes its Orbitz and CheapTickets businesses—to The Blackstone Group for about $4.3bn in cash.
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Brentwood Associates will sell the consumer-product company to Carlyle after a hotly contested auction.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
Shares of KKR Private Equity Investors, listed on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange, closed today at $22.39 per share, down nearly 9 percent since the vehicle went public on May 3.
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Standard Chartered Private Equity has invested HK$370 million in a Chinese real estate development company, its second investment in a mainland China property in less than two months.
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The US and UK-based investor has paid £571m for 290 managed pubs from Punch Taverns, its largest deal in Europe to date.
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European mezzanine provider Intermediate Capital Group also put a record amount of capital to work in the fourteen months to 2005, arranging or providing £899m of debt financing.
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Leisure parks in Europe attract customers from across the world. US and European private equity firms, it seems, are also along for the ride. By Robert Venes.
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Universities Superannuation Scheme, a UK pension fund with £22bn under management, is reportedly thinking of moving up to 20% of assets into strategies including private equity and infrastructure.
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A new set of private equity valuation guidelines have been endorsed in the farthest corners of the world – but not in the US. By Judy Kuan.
3 min read · 23 January 2013
Land of the rising tide 2006-07-01 Staff Writer The prefecture of Miyazaki on the island of Kyushu, located 953 miles south of Tokyo, features picturesque beaches and pine tree forests and, a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean, the world's largest indoor water-amusement park. The park comes complete wi
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