Anheuser Sells CCU Stake for $299 Million
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Leading U.S. brewer AnheuserBusch  sold its 20 percent stake in Chile's biggestbrewer CCU  for $299 million in an auction on theSantiago Stock Exchange on Friday.
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TD Bank Financial Group and Banknorth Group Inc. said Thursday that they signed a definitive agreement for the Canadian bank to purchase a 51 percent stake in Portland, Maine-based Banknorth for about $3.
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ZURICH: Credit Suisse Group has sold its 19.9% stake in private equity firm Warburg Pincus, the Swiss-based bank said on Friday, adding the deal would have no significant impact on its results.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.   said on Monday it agreed to be acquired by a group led  by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.   and Texas Pacific Group  for $31.8 billion in the  largest leveraged buyout in history.
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Radio One Inc. chief executive Alfred Liggins III agreed last night to buy a controlling stake in radio personality Tom Joyner's media company for $56 million, furthering his attempt to turn the radio company his mother began out of a trailer 24 years ago into a diversified media group aimed at the black community.
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Lone Star Funds, the buyout firm founded by John Grayken, plans to sell a stake in Korea Exchange Bank for as much as $1.1 billion after its move to divest entirely was derailed last year by a legal dispute. Lone Star is offering 73.1 million shares, or 11.3 percent of Korea Exchange, for 13,150 to 13.750 won ($14.19 to $14.84) a share, according to an e-mail message sent to fund managers by the Credit Suisse Group, the investment bank arranging the sale. Shares in Korea Exchange fell 1.7 percent, to 14,600 won, up 14 percent this year. Lone Star, based in Dallas, has struggled for two years to sell the controlling stake it bought in 2003 as Korean prosecutors contend that the firm purchased the shares at an artificially low price. The sale of part of the Seoul-based bank would allow Lone Star to return money to investors while the case is pending and retain a majority stake.
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Australian energy company Origin bought its 51 per cent stake in Contact Energy at a discount of nearly $200 million, says an independent valuation released yesterday.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.   has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Kohlberg  Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group   for about $32 billion in the largest leverage buyout in  history, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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The US cleaning products maker has agreed to buy back a 29 percent stake from Germany&#39;s Henkel KGaA (HNKG_p.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) .
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Boston developer John B. Hynes III and the financial services company Morgan Stanley yesterday bought 23 acres of South Boston Waterfront land from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for $203.7 million.
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TXU Corp.  said it agreed to be acquired  by a group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts  & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $45  billion including debt.
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Montgomery, Ala.-based Colonial BancGroup (NYSE: CNB) said it has agreed to buy Sunrise-based Union Bank of Florida for a total of about $233 million.
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Rouse Co., the Baltimore-based real estate investment trust that owns the Mall St. Matthews, is being sold to Chicago-based General Growth Properties Inc. for $7.2 billion, according to a report in the Baltimore Business Journal.
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Citigroup&#39;s European headquarters in London has been sold to a consortium led by an Irish private-equity company for 1.0 billion pounds (1.48 billion euros, 2.01 billion dollars), the buyers said Monday.
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Host Marriott Corp. said Wednesday that it is selling a majority of its stake in Courtyard hotels to an institutional investor for $92 million in a move to divest a noncore asset.
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CIBC will sell off Juniper Financial Corp., a credit card issuer in which it first took a 51-per-cent stake in 2001.
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Financial services company Coyle Hamilton today announced the completion of the sale of 56pc of its shares to the global insurance broker Willis.