Steve Gelsi
The Valence Group’s Anton Ticktin, who’s been focused on mergers and acquisitions in the chemical sector since the late 1990s, ranks 2013’s deal prospects as bullish, with major private equity players wading in.
Standard & Poor’s cut its debt rating on Bain Capital portfolio company Guitar Center Holdings Inc. as the music retailer purchased during the height of the 2007 buyout boom struggles with “weak operating trends.” S&P reduced its rating on the Westlake Village, Calif.-based company, including its corporate credit rating, to ‘CCC+’ from ‘B-‘.
TZP Group Inc., a mid-market buyout shop focused on U.S.-based consumer and business service companies, has raised $180 million toward a $300 million target for its second fund, TZP Capital Partners II LP, according to a filing with regulators.
Paul Capital Partners has raised $145 million out of a target of $2 billion for its core Paul Capital Partners X LP secondary fund, one year after the fund’s first Form D filing with regulators.
Newly-formed energy sponsor Tailwater Capital LLC and secondary fund specialist Landmark Partners have raised $461 million for TW/LM Acquisition LP after the firms announced the formation of Tailwater as a spinoff from HM Capital, according to a filing with regulators and a source familiar with the deal.
Navigating the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, the European debt crisis, the fiscal cliff and other woes, U.S.-based buyout shops still managed to raise $69.8 billion through 206 initial public offerings of portfolio companies from 2007 to May 20, 2013, according to an estimate based on Thomson Reuters data.
Apollo Global Management LLC, Guggenheim Partners LLC and other sponsors may face tighter regulations on investments in the life insurance and annuity business now that New York State’s chief financial watch dog has vowed to probe increased presence in the industry by buyout shops.
Bessemer Trust Co. has raised $161 million of its estimated $250 million goal for Old Westbury Private Equity Fund XII, its latest fund of funds, according to filings with regulators. The firm is well known for managing money for wealthy families.
Bain Capital LLC, Thomas H. Lee Partners and J.P. Morgan Chase Partners would hold shares in healthcare company Warner Chilcott plc valued at about $453 million following the proposed $8.5 billion acquisition of the drug firm by strategic buyer Actavis Inc, suggesting an investment multiple of nearly 4x over the life of the investment.
Capital Dynamics, the Swiss-based alternative asset management firm, has raised about half of its $750 million target for its new Capital Dynamics Energy and Infrastructure Fund, a source told Buyouts.