Recent transactions
Recent transactions include:
- friendly takeover bid by Solvay for Rhodia for €3.4 billion
- sale by SNPE of SNPE Matériaux Energétiques to Safran for €348 million
- business combination between GDF Suez and International Power for €22 billion
- strategic alliance between Crédit Mutuel-CIC and Banco Popular and creation of new jointly held banking platform in Spain for €925 million
- disposal of Société Marseillaise de Crédit to Crédit du Nord for €872 million
- tender offer for Sperian Protection by Honeywell for $1.4 billion
- merger between Groupe Banque Populaire and Groupe Caisse d'Epargne for €15 billion
- acquisition of a majority control of Cofidis Participations by Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel for €1.9 billion
- business combination between KKR Private Equity Investors and KKR & Co.
- acquisition of Citibank Deutschland by Banque fédérative du Crédit Mutuel for €4.9 billion
- binding offer by Unilever to acquire the personal care business of Sara Lee for €1.275 billion
- acquisition of HSBC's French regional banks by Banques Populaires
for €2.1 billion
- acquisition by Meetic of the European activities of Match.com
- Disposal of 51% stake of Banque Populaire Atlantique in Portzambac Société de Bourse to B* Capital
- merger between Suez and Gaz de France for €40 billion
- sale of BUT by KESA to Colony Capital, Goldman Sachs and
Merchant Equity Partners for €550 million
- acquisition of selected Hagemeyer activities by Sonepar for €2.7
- acquisition of APCOA Parking AG by Eurazeo for €885 million
- increase by Robert Louis-Dreyfus of his stake in Groupe Louis
- acquisition of Business Objects by SAP AG for €4.8 billion
- acquisition by Paris-Orléans (holding company of the
Rothschild family) of the remaining 50% stake in Concordia BV for
€446 million
- acquisition of the global biscuit division of the Danone Group
by Kraft Foods Inc. for €5.3 billion
- disposal of Vivarte by PAI, EPI (the Descours family) and
Sagard to Charterhouse for €3.5 billion
- merger between NYSE and Euronext for €15 billion
- buy-out of the minority shareholders of AGF by Allianz for €10 billion
- acquisition of TDF by Texas Pacific Group for €4.9 billion
- acquisition of Pages Jaunes by KKR for €6.4 billion
- tender offer for Arcelor by Mittal Steel for €22.4 billion
- merger between Natexis and Caisses d'Epargne for €20
billion
- acquisition of Europcar by Eurazeo for €3 billion
- acquisition of State-owned APRR by Eiffage and Macquarie for €6.9
billion
- disposal of Groupe Taittinger to Starwood for €2.65 billion
- acquisition of Rexel by Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Eurazeo and Merrill
Lynch Private Equity for €3.7 billion
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