PRIVATE-EQUITY FIRMS are swarming around nearly every large M&A deal at the moment – from the €4.35 billion buyout of global airline reservations company Amadeus, to Auna, Spain’s second-largest telecoms company, which could go for as much as €14 billion.
Trade bidders hoping to clinch Basell, the petrochemicals business being sold by BASF and Royal Dutch/Shell, are facing a formidable alliance of private-equity firms that are amassing as much as $3 billion in debt. Wind, the telecommunications unit of Enel, Italy’s biggest utility, this January decided to spurn an IPO in favour of an auction that has attracted six of the largest private-equity firms.
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