Record private equity buyout due
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Texas Pacific and KKR could announce the biggest private equity buyout ever as soon as Monday.
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The value of mergers and acquisitions in Virginia, Maryland and the District hit record highs last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. But even more striking is the growth of private-equity involvement in these deals, which more than doubled in each of the three jurisdictions.
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Driven by corporate buyouts, strong profit reports and stock buybacks, the market closed at a record high.
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Commercial real estate is positively smoking. That was made plain by two big deals this week, one of them (nominally) the biggest leveraged buyout in history.
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Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy a real estate investor, the Investa Property Group of Australia, for 4.7 billion Australian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash. Including debt, the offer values Australiaâs biggest publicly traded owner of office buildings at 6.6 billion Australian dollars. The bid is subject to an independent expertâs report confirming that the offer is in the best interests of shareholders.
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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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BCE Inc , Canada's largest telecommunications group, announced the biggest buyout in Canadian corporate history on Saturday, accepting an offer worth C$51.7 billion ($48.5 billion), including debt, from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.
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PRIVATE equity firms, flush with cash from wealthy institutions and other investors eager for extraordinary returns, snapped up more and bigger companies this week in a burst of takeovers impressive even in a year that is shaping up as a record for mergers.
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor   Inc. FSL.N said on Friday it agreed to be bought for $17.6   billion, or $40 a share in cash, by a private equity consortium   led by Blackstone Group, in what could be the biggest leveraged   buyout of a technology company.
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An 11.1 billion dollar (8.7 billion US) takeover bid by a private equity consortium for Qantas Airways will be subject to vigorous scrutiny to ensure the airline remains under Australian control, Treasurer Peter Costello said.
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Hong Kong property firm Chinese  Estates Holdings Ltd. (0127.HK) is in talks with investors on a  possible buyout of the firm, valued at more than US$4 billion,  sending its shares up as much as 30 percent to a record high.
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A pullback in commercial property  lending has raised questions about whether a recent surge in  real estate investment trust buyouts signaled a peak for  private equity funds.
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Two groups of private equity firms are   bidding to buy chip maker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. FSL.N   for about $16 billion, sources familiar with the matter said on   Monday, which if completed would be the technology industry's   largest leveraged buyout ever.
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KKR & Co. LP , the prominent  U.S. buyout firm that pioneered the leveraged buyout industry,  filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $1.25 billion  in an initial public offering.
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Private equity companies in Europe raised a record 112 billion euros (150 billion dollars) in 2006, an increase of 56.4 percent compared with 2005, industry association EVCA said Tuesday.
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The private equity firm blows up one of its marquee deals.
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The deal to buy Freescale Semiconductor, if completed, would be the largest leveraged buyout ever in the technology sector.