Ontario fund buying Alliance Laundry for $450 mln
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Alliance Laundry Holdings, a commercial laundry equipment manufacturer, said its controlling shareholder Bain Capital agreed to sell the company to Teachers&#39; Private Capital for about $450 million.
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PARAMUS, N.J. -- A group led by Vornado Realty Trust boosted its offer for Equity Office Properties Trust to $23.24 billion, or $56 per share, in cash and stock on Thursday, topping a private equity firm's buyout bid.
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Osprey, an investment group including  Canadian, Australian and British firms, said on Monday it was  making a 2.2-billion-pound ($4.1 billion) offer for water firm  AWG .
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The credit crunch has turned $417,000 into the magic number for home buyers shopping for mortgages.
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Canada-based Brookfield Asset Management  Inc. (BAMa.TO) made an approach to buy out Australia's  Multiplex Ltd. , sending shares in the A$4 billion ($3  billion) construction and property firm up as much as 8  percent.
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US investment fund Steel Partners II on Thursday offered to buy 90 percent of Gencorp Inc. (GY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) it does not already own for about $700 million
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The Bank of Montreal said it had agreed to buy two Wisconsin banks for $327.2 million to expand its Harris Bank unit in the Midwest. Bank of Montreal said it bought Ozaukee Bank for $190 million in stock, and Merchants and Manufacturers Bancorporation for $137.2 million in cash. Ozaukee has eight branches and Merchants has 45. Bank of Montreal, which is based in Toronto, has spent about 1.5 billion Canadian dollars ($1.4 billion) on banks in the United States since 2000 to expand the Harris Bank of Chicago, which it bought in 1984. Bank of Montreal bid $37.30 a share for Merchants, or 33 percent more than its closing share price on Monday. Merchants is based in New Berlin. Ozaukee, based in the Milwaukee area, is privately held.
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The Centro Properties Group and Centro Retail Trust of Australia have agreed to buy New Plan Excel Realty Trust for about $3.4 billion in cash, accelerating Centroâs push into the United States.
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BCE Inc , Canada's largest telecommunications group, has agreed to a C$51.7 billion ($48.5 billion) offer from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, in what the purchasers said was the largest buyout in Canadian corporate history.
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Here's a sneaky way to invest in a grade-A retailer.
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Basell, a Dutch company owned by Access, will pay $48 a share, or $12.1 billion in cash, for Lyondell, a 20 percent premium to the companyâs closing price on Monday.
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The Ontario Securities Commission warned four mutual fund firms including CI Fund Management Inc. and AGF Funds Inc. they may face enforcement action in a probe of improper trading in the C$475 billion ($368 billion) industry.
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WORLEY Group became a true global player in mining services yesterday with the acquisition of an American partner. The $US245 million ($A350 million) purchase of US-based Parsons E&amp;C will turn Worley into a near billion-dollar business.
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(Adds details of funding proposal and company comments.) By Morag MacKinnon Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES. SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Building products manufacturer James Hardie Industries NV (JHX) agreed Tuesday to fund
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A Canadian state pension fund and an Australian fund manager are linked with a bid for Anglian Water's owner.
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American Apparel, known for its casual cotton clothing and provocative advertising, has agreed to be bought by Endeavor Acquisition Corp.  in a deal that will effectively allow the retailer to list shares on an exchange without doing a public offering.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit said on Thursday it would buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion (US$3.9 billion), the latest in a string of property takeovers by the U.S. investment bank.