UPDATE 1-Ontario fund buying Alliance Laundry for $450 mln
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Alliance Laundry Holdings, a commercial laundry equipment manufacturer, on Wednesday said its private equity owners agreed to sell the company to Teachers&#39; Private Capital for about $450 million.
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Diageo has raised $2.26bn (â¬1.84bn) from the sale of 49.9 million shares of common stock held in General Mills. The shares were sold for â¬45.
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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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Man Group , the world's biggest listed hedge fund firm, has set the indicative price range for the flotation of its U.S. brokerage arm, MF Global, valuing the unit between $4.6 billion and $5 billion.
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Invesco Funds Group Inc. and affiliate AIM Advisors Inc. agreed to a &#36;450 million settlement with state and federal regulators to resolve probes of improper trading, officials and the parent company said on Tuesday.
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Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by $5.64 billion in the latest week to $875.21 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
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Lone Star Funds, Dallas-based investment firm, will pay as much as $660 million to Dutch retailer Royal Ahold for Bruno&#39;s supermarkets.
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Delta Two, a Qatar-backed investment fund, said it submitted an offer to the board of J Sainsbury that valued the company, one of Britainâs largest retailers, at about Â£10.6 billion ($21.7 billion), or 600 pence a share. It was the second cash offer this year for Sainsbury; Delta owns 25 percent of the company. The fund proposed spending Â£3.5 billion to build and renovate Sainsbury stores and expand its range of nonfood goods.
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A $44 million bid from Philadelphia private equity firm Chrysalis Capital Partners has emerged as the likely winning offer for Malden Mills Industries , according to a spokesman for the bankrupt Lawrence textile maker. Managers filed for Chapter 11 protection as part of a planned sale of the maker of Polartec fleece to Boston investor Gordon Brothers Group. ...
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The Sears Holdings Corporation extended until Oct. 31 its $802 million offer to buy the 46 percent of Sears Canada it does not already own. The proposal may be further extended as the company seeks to appeal a regulatory ruling blocking its effort to buy the stake. The bid would pay Sears Canada stockholders 18 Canadian dollars a share and values the company at about 1.94 billion Canadian dollars ($1.74 billion). Sears also said it would ask the Ontario Court of Appeal to reconsider a decision by the Ontario Securities Commission that barred Sears Holdings from counting some shareholder votes toward the proposed purchase and effectively prevented the company from completing the acquisition.
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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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Canada-based Brookfield Asset Management Inc.  has made a takeover approach for Australia's A$4 billion ($3.1 billion) Multiplex Group Ltd. , the construction and property group said, sending its shares up 7.5 percent.
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A cadre of buyout shops are expected to try to raise a total of &#36;45 billion for new European funds in the next year and a half.
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Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by &#36;906.8 million in the latest week to &#36;833.01 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
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Ahold today announced it has entered into an agreement to sell its US retail subsidiaries BI-LO and Brunoâs to an affiliate of the Lone Star Funds for total cash proceeds of up to $660 million.
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The activist investor looks to squeeze some more value out of the retailer's shares.