Europe
Poland / Finance
Russian-based vodka producer Russian Standard has made an offer to Poland-based Central European Distribution Corp (CEDC) that could see it take a 32.99% stake in the business. CEDC is under pressure due to concerns over its large debt pile, with US$207mn of its debt due in 2013. Russian Standard currently owns 9.9% of the business and is also an important debt holder. The proposed...
2012-02-03Russia / Finance
A report by Russian news channel RT has stated that local sparkling wine producer Abrau-Durso is planning to list on the Moscow Stock Exchange. According to the report, the firm will...
2012-02-02Finance
CFW View: The long-awaited conclusion of the final part of a deal between Stada and Grunenthal is good news for both firms. An immediate cash injection for Grunenthal should support...
2012-02-02Financing Strategies
Poland
Russian-based vodka producer Russian Standard has made an offer to Poland-based Central European Distribution Corp (CEDC) that could see it take a 32.99% stake in the business. CEDC...
2012-02-03Russia
A report by Russian news channel RT has stated that local sparkling wine producer Abrau-Durso is planning to list on the Moscow Stock Exchange. According to the report, the firm will...
2012-02-02CFW View: The long-awaited conclusion of the final part of a deal between Stada and Grunenthal is good news for both firms. An immediate cash injection for Grunenthal should support...
2012-02-02United Kingdom
CFW View: BAA has once again lost a battle against the UK Competition Commission, which now requires the airport operator to sell its Stansted airport, due to its market dominance in...
2012-02-02Poland
On the back of Prime Minister Donald Tusks' re-election in the parliamentary elections held on October 9 2011, Poland's privatisation drive is set to come back into the spotlight. Indeed...
2012-01-31United Kingdom
The list of interested parties in taking over state-backed UK lender
2011-09-07Italy
Italian bottled water firm Sorgenti Emiliane Modena (SEM) has decided to cancel a proposed initial public offering (IPO) due to poor market conditions. The firm had previously announced...
2011-07-26Germany
The Polish government is continuing with its privatisation agenda. Earlier this week, it set the price for the IPO of the European Union's largest coking coal producer,
2011-06-15Germany
Germany has stepped back into the M&A spotlight with computer giant SAP inking the largest acquisition loan in the country in over a year.
2012-01-18United Kingdom
After spending US$7.2bn to buy most of Samson Investment in the largest Leveraged Buyout (LBO) in 2011 last week,
2011-11-30Germany
International Arline Group (IAG), the company created out of the merger between British Airways and the Spanish airline, Iberia is looking to expand further.
2011-11-10Denmark
Hindsight is a beautiful thing and looking back at the proposed deal with which security company
2011-11-03The maturity cliff for the EMEA private equity industry is not as close as it perhaps first seemed. Two years ago the asset class - which had borrowed so heavily during the buyout boom...
2011-12-14As markets have reacted with uncertainty to the events of the last few months, private equity (PE) has become more attractive as an asset class to investors. Indeed, the ongoing unrest...
2011-03-17Bahrain
Reports in the UK press have suggested that frozen-food retailer Iceland has attracted the attention of a consortium of gulf investors headed by by the Global Banking Corporation of...
2010-12-15Buyout funds are finding their focus being stretched in two different directions at present. CFW identifies that while buyout funds will be revelling in 1) the renaissance of leveraged...
2010-12-01
