Recent cases

Recent cases

Recent transactions include:

- tender offer for Sperian Protection by Honeywell for $1.4 billion

- merger of CE Participation and BP Participations with BPCE for €1.8 billion

- sale by Eurazeo of its stake in B&B to Carlyle

- disposal of Société Marseillaise de Crédit to Crédit du Nord for €872 million

- acquisition by Fondations Capital of the Courtepaille Group

- sale of DHL's French road day-definite parcel delivery business to Caravelle

- merger between Groupe Banque Populaire et 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.

- the binding offer by Unilever of Sara Lee for €1.275 billion

- acquisition of a controlling interest in Monabanq by Cofidis Group

- acquisition of Citibank Deutschland by Crédit Mutuel
  for €4.9 billion

- acquisition of HSBC's French regional banks by BFBP for
  €2.1 billion

- acquisition by Meetic of the European activities of Match.com

- acquisition of Marie SAS (Uniq PLC) by LDC

- the take-over of Autodistribution Group by TowerBrook under a pre-pack arrangement in safeguard (first "pre-pack" in France)

- 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 Numico by Groupe Danone for €12.3 billion

- acquisition of the global biscuit division of Groupe Danone by Kraft
  Foods Inc. for €5.3 billion

- acquisition of Beni Stabili by Delfin for €5.3 billion

- acquisition of Business Objects by SAP AG for €4.8 billion

- acquisition of selected Hagemeyer activities by Sonepar for €2.7
  billion

- increase by Robert Louis-Dreyfus of his stake in Groupe Louis
  Dreyfus for €1.034 billion

- acquisition of APCOA Parking AG by Eurazeo for €885 million

- acquisition of Saint-Gobain/Desjonquères by Sagard and Cognetas for
  €690 million

- acquisition of B&B Hotels by ANF for €471 million

- acquisition by Paris-Orléans (holding company of the
  Rothschild family) of the remaining 50% stake in Concordia BV for
  €446 million

- sale of CCR by Commerzbank to UBS for €435 million

- 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 State-owned APRR by Eiffage and Macquarie for €6.9
  billion

- acquisition of Pages Jaunes by KKR for €6.4 billion

- disposal of Vivarte by PAI, EPI (the Descours family) and
  Sagard to Charterhouse for €3.5 billion

- acquisition of Europcar by Eurazeo for €3 billion

- initial public offering of Legrand for approximately €1 billion.



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