Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC
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BCE Acquisition Inc. Issues Statement on BCE Announcement [Press Release]
Business Wire | 42 days 18 hours 21 minutes ago
BCE Acquisition Inc., a company organized by an investor group led by Teachers’ Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and affiliates of Providence Equity Partners Inc., Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity, issued the following statement regarding BCE’s announcement today:
MMP Announces Governance Changes [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 33 days 11 hours 3 minutes ago
TULSA, Okla., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.
MGG Announces Governance Changes [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 33 days 11 hours 45 minutes ago
TULSA, Okla., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Magellan Midstream Holdings, L.P.
BCE $41 bln buyout ends as solvency condition was unmet - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 27 days 20 hours ago
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- The $41 billion leveraged buyout of BCE Inc., the Montreal telecoms giant, ended after auditors KPMG concluded that the company that would result from the deal would not be solvent, the potential buying group said.
Buyout Shops Swoop In for a Feast on the Cheap
Wall Street Journal, The | 8 days 5 hours 32 minutes ago
Last week, restaurant operator Real Mex Restaurants Inc. got new owners. Hedge fund Farallon Capital Management LLC and private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. took control of Real Mex, pushing out its chief executive and bringing in several new directors.Farallon and KKR had helped finance the 2006 buyout of the Mexican-food chain, which was acquired for $359 million by Sun Capital Partners Inc., another private-equity firm. As the Cypress, Calif., company wobbled, the two lend...
BCE privatization transaction will not proceed [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 27 days 12 hours 21 minutes ago
MONTREAL, Quebec, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - BCE Inc.
BCE Statement [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 33 days 12 hours 13 minutes ago
MONTREAL, Quebec, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - BCE Inc.
The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. Reports Fiscal 2008 Third Quarter Results [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 62 days 18 hours 44 minutes ago
SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Yankee Holding Corp. and The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. ("Yankee Candle" or the "Company") today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 27, 2008. Yankee Holding Corp. is a holding company formed in connection with the Company's Merger with an affiliate of Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC on February 6, 2007 (the "Merger"), and is now the parent company of The Yankee Candle Company, Inc.
BCE Leveraged Buyout Deal Collapses
Wall Street Journal, The | 28 days 49 minutes ago
The BCE Inc. buyout is officially busted.A year and a half after it was struck, then the largest private-equity deal in history, the $41 billion leveraged buyout of the Canadian telephone company collapsed Wednesday when a valuation expert at auditing firm KPMG LLC issued a final opinion that the transaction would create an insolvent entity.
BCE Gets Positive View on Solvency
Wall Street Journal, The | 29 days 8 hours 21 minutes ago
The fate of the C$51.7 billion ($41.3 billion) takeover of BCE Inc. took another turn after the telephone company got a positive solvency opinion from its new auditing firm, in a twist that could put the deal back on track.The Montreal-based telecom company retained PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, which determined that the company will be solvent after the buyout, said a person familiar with the situation. PwC's opinion runs counter to a determination by BCE's prior auditing firm KPMG LLC, which ...
Sony Online Entertainment and The Topps Company Announce Free Realms(TM) Trading Card Game [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 43 days 17 hours 15 minutes ago
DENVER, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) and The Topps Company announced an exclusive long-term licensing agreement allowing Topps to create a physical trading card game based on SOE's upcoming and highly-anticipated online game Free Realms(TM). The physical trading card game complements the digital trading card game playable within Free Realms, allowing players to enjoy the game in front of their computer and around the world.
CORRECT: BCE buyout ends; solvency condition unmet - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 27 days 20 hours ago
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BCE's deal to go private hits a snag - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 42 days 17 hours 2 minutes ago
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- BCE Inc., the parent company of Bell Canada, said Wednesday that its deal to go private in what would be one of the largest-ever leveraged buyouts might not proceed as planned because it may fail to meet a condition central to closing the transaction.
BCE and Bell Canada Announce Cash Tender Offers for Certain Outstanding Debt Securities and BCE Announces the Mailing of Letters of Transmittal [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 58 days 17 hours 14 minutes ago
MONTREAL, Quebec, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - BCE Inc.
Private Equity Draws the Cold Shoulder
Wall Street Journal, The | 65 days 4 hours 59 minutes ago
Large institutional investors that provided much of the capital that put some of America's best-known companies into private hands are starting to cool on the investment strategy, suggesting that the lifeline for private equity is eroding.Public pension funds and endowments are turning down invitations to make private-equity investments. The nation's largest public pension fund, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or Calpers, is asking private-equity firms to ease off on reque...
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Company Overview
| Company: | Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Investment Firms |
| Website: | http://www.mdcp.com |
Madison Dearborn Partners is a private equity investment firm specializing in management buyouts and investments in five industry sectors: basic industries (natural resources, energy, building products), communications (media and wireless communications), consumer (retail, restaurants, and consumer products), financial services (asset management, financial outsourcing, and specialty finance), and health care (acute and ancillary care providers and medical equipment). In 2006 the company raised some $6.5 billion from institutional investors such as endowments, pension plans, and financial services companies in the US and abroad for its latest fund.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 566 (2007) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 0.0 (2007) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 0 () |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 0.0 () |
| Number of Employees | 4,158 (2007) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 0.0 (2007) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |