Two private equity-backed packaging companies have announced proposals for a €7.6bn ($9.4bn) merger.
The US business development company has provided the storied guitar maker with almost $53m in second-lien debt.
The New York and San Francisco firm will enjoy a $337.5m recapitalisation of its defense and homeland-security portfolio company, ILC Industries, returning 1.5 times the equity invested by the buyout firm in 2003.
Harris Williams, the Richmond, Virginia investment bank that has captured a major portion of the US middle-market buyout business, has agreed to be acquired by PNC Financial Services Group, which also owns BlackRock.
The European buyout firm has completed its exit from the listed Stockholm-headquartered credit management group that it first acquired in a 1998 take private.
Two losing bidders for the £1.3 billion Abbey portfolio have received a second chance to get in on the action.
The dotcom industry became the symbol of the irrational exuberance of the late 1990s tech bubble, but now a resurgence is underway.
Skype is proof that venture capital investment in Europe can deliver globally competitive performance.
Distressed deals have evolved to the next level in Latin America, with a new generation of funds picking up assets from strategic investors leaving the region. By Judy Kuan.
Following an exit from its investment in a Russian cable firm last week, Delta Equity Partners has sold its entire shareholding in DeltaCredit Bank to Société Générale.