Jan 5, 2015 | Brazil, Latin America, News
SAO PAULO, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Mergers and acquisitions in Brazil should gain steam in coming months as a slumping currency and lower asset prices prompted foreign companies and investment funds to spend $33.1 billion on takeovers in Latin America’s largest...
Dec 4, 2014 | News, Oceania, Western Europe
SYDNEY, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Private equity firm KKR & Co has invested about $100 million in UK-based agribusiness Sundrop Farms Holding Ltd, which plans to use solar panels and sea water to grow vegetables in a vast greenhouse in Australia’s driest...
Dec 1, 2014 | News, Western Europe
LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) – British bank Virgin Money said it had sold small regional lender Church House Trust to Ocean Industries for 13 million pounds ($20.4 million), four years after buying the business. Virgin Money bought Somerset-based bank Church House...
Nov 30, 2014 | News, Oceania
SYDNEY, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Australian billboard company oOh! Media said it plans to raise A$166 million ($141 million) in an initial public offering, the latest in a series of listings by private equity-owned firms. oOh! Media said in prospectus filed on Friday...
Nov 24, 2014 | News, Western Europe
HELSINKI, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Finnish packaging company Huhtamaki, known for making paper cups for McDonald’s, has agreed to sell its films business in a deal led by German private equity company Deutsche Beteiligungs AG for 141 million euros ($175...
