KKR-Domain’s $3.1b offer upends PEXA process

KKR and its junior consortium partner Domain Holdings are trying to force a quick decision by the owners of electronic conveyancing group PEXA as it heads into the final stages of a dual-track strategic review, weighing up whether to offload the business in a trade sale, or float the entity onto the ASX. Link Group, the largest […]

Private equity firm buys Gü pudding brand

Private equity firm Exponent has secured a deal to buy dessert brand Gü from Noble Foods for an undisclosed fee. Sky News reported last week that Exponent had offered £150m to buy the pudding brand. The company was bought by Noble Foods in 2010 and has seen particularly strong growth in recent years, hailing 25 […]

EQT to buy Exeter Property Group in $1.9bn deal

The move will expand the Stockholm-based investor’s real estate operation. EQT, the Swedish private equity group, has agreed to buy Philadelphia-based real estate investor Exeter Property Group for $1.9bn, merging it with its own operations in a deal that will add $10bn to its assets under management. The buyout group will pay just over $1bn […]