Permira raises stake in Britvic
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Drinks firm Britvic says private equity company Permira has raised its share in the firm to nearly 14%.
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Dutch retailer Ahold has sold its network of about 600 Spanish retail stores to private equity group Permira. The two parties valued the deal at 685m euros ($850m; Â£472m).
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LONDON/BEIJING  - British bank Barclays  raised its bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) on Monday, helped by some of the biggest ever overseas investments by China and Singapore.
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Shares in British insurer Resolution  climbed more than 3 percent in early trade on Monday on hopes of a 5 billion pound ($10.2 billion) bid from rival Standard Life , backed by Swiss Re .
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Standard Chartered Plc, a UK bank that makes two-thirds of its profit in Asia, will start talks to buy a 51 percent stake in PT Bank Permata, Indonesia&#39;s seventh- largest lender, after being named the preferred bidder.
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Privately-owned British fashion retailer  New Look may be sold for 2 billion pounds ($3.91 billion) after  private-equity firms Apax and Permira received at least three  bid approaches for the firm, The Sunday Times said.
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An RBS-led group sweetens its bid for Dutch lender ABN Amro, boosting the amount of cash it has offered.
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Permira, the private equity firm that owns New Look, has moved to increase its exposure to the retail sector by bidding for Toys &#39;R&#39; Us, the struggling toy chain.
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PPR, the French retailer and owner of the Gucci brand, raises its stake in Puma as it tries for a full takeover.
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Permira Advisers, manager of Europeâs largest buyout fund, increased its stake in the Valentino Fashion Group to 60.2 percent by purchasing Canova Finanziariaâs shares for 491.4 million euros ($668 million). The shares were bought for 35 euros each through Permiraâs Red & Black Lux SARL unit, Permira said. Valentino Fashionâs chairman, Antonio Favrin, and his associate, Dario Segre, controlled the 18.95 percent Valentino Fashion stake through Canova. Permira, based in London, offered to buy Valentino Fashion last month in a transaction valuing the company at 2.6 billion euros, lured by its Hugo Boss clothing brand, and plans to bid for the rest of the outstanding stock. Valentino is based in Milan.
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The Dutch retailer Ahold has sold its network of almost 600 Spanish retail stores to the private equity group Permira in an $850 million deal, the two companies said on Sunday.
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Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) said it agreed to purchase 90% of UK-based Meridica for approximately $125 million. The deal, which also includes an unspecified &quot;contingent payment&quot; to be paid by Pfizer, is expected to close by the end of the year.
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Shares in Manchester United Plc rose 3.1 percent after a newspaper report yesterday said the soccer club&#39;s two biggest investors may sell their stake to billionaire Malcolm Glazer for 310 pence ($5.
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EURONEXT, one of the two rival potential bidders for London Stock Exchange, has strengthened its team by lining up a heavyweight French bank to help to raise funds.
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Canada's Barrick Gold Corp. said Thursday it was acquiring a 9 percent stake in London-based Celtic Resources Holding Ltd. &#151; a deal that potentially gives the Canadian gold giant major clout ahead of next year's auction of Russia's biggest gold deposit.
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Shares in the French oil services group Technip soared on reports it might be about to receive an offer from Italian energy company ENI or its engineering affiliate Saipem.
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Global private equity firm  Permira , said it had won the race to buy agrichemical  company Arysta LifeScience Corp for about 250 billion yen ($2.2  billion) enterprise value, marking its first deal in Japan.