BMC Software is to be acquired by a private investor group led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital together with GIC Special Investments and Insight Venture Partners. Under the terms of the agreement, affiliates of the investor group will acquire all outstanding BMC common stock for USD46.25 per
Burger King has sold its wholly-owned German subsidiary and its 91 company-owned restaurants in Germany to Yi-Ko Holding, owned and operated by Ergün Yildiz, a long-standing Burger King restaurant operator in Germany, and Alexander Kolobov, who has been driving the company’s expansion in Russia. The sale is part of Burger
Electra Partners has received a binding offer for Allflex Holdings, a manufacturer and distributor of plastic and electronic animal identification tags, from funds advised by BC Partners. The offer is subject to consultation with the relevant works council in France and certain regulatory approvals. If the offer is
Backstop Solutions Group, a Software-as-a-Service provider to the alternative asset management industry, has acquired the PerTrac CMS product line, a customer relationship management tool built exclusively for the institutional investment community. The business was acquired from eVestment, a provider of institutional investment data and intelligence solutions. Terms of the
Graham Stock (pictured), chief strategist at Insparo Asset Management comments on Bharti Airtel decision to sell a stake to Qatar investment group… Bharti Airtel’s desire to raise fresh capital to finance further investment in its African operations highlights the continuing potential for growth on the continent. The roll-out of next
CMS Cameron McKenna has advised a consortium led by Bancroft Private Equity on its sale to East Capital Explorer of a majority stake in Starman, a cable TV, broadband internet and voice cable services provider in Estonia. East Capital Explorer will acquire 67.72 per cent stake in the company,
Dealogic has completed the acquisition of Junction RDS (JRDS). Founded in 2005, JRDS provides ownership analysis of UK listed companies and combines specialist research by skilled staff with proprietary analytical software. The JRDS acquisition further enhances the Dealogic product set by providing clients with greater transparency into ownership
Five packaging companies in North America and Europe intend to combine to operate as one firm under the banner of Exopack Holdings Sarl, a new Luxembourg company. The combined business will have 63 plants, 8,650 employees and aggregate revenues of more than USD2.5bn, making it the sixth-largest plastics packaging
Private equity firm HIG Capital has completed the acquisition of Caraustar Industries, a provider of recycled paperboard and related products. Caraustar was majority owned by private investment funds managed by Wayzata Investment Partners. Headquartered in Austell, Georgia, Caraustar is one of North America’s largest integrated manufacturers and converters of 100 per
Brothers Edmund and Danny Truell have completed a substantial growth capital investment in Imagine Publishing to support the next phase of the multimedia publisher’s expansion. Imagine Publishing is one of the UK’s fastest-growing multimedia content publishers. Formed in May 2005, it now publishes 19 regular print magazines, 50 digital
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