Examining The Decade's Top Active PE Investors In Mega-Deals

Billion-Dollar Buyouts: Examining The Decade’s Top Active PE Investors In Mega-Deals by Kevin Dowd, PitchBook

Monday brought updates on two of the more massive private equity deals to be agreed upon so far in 2016. The $6.9 billion acquisition of security company ADT (NYSE: ADT) by Apollo Global Management moved one step closer to completion, as the deal’s 40-day “go-shop” period expired without ADT receiving any competing offers. It’s a very different story in the saga of Starwood Hotels (NYSE: HOT), where competition just keeps heating up. A consortium including Anbang Insurance Group, J.C. Flowers & Co. and Primavera Capital has submitted a new proposal to pay roughly $14 billion for the company, outbidding Marriott International (NASDAQ: MAR), whose previous offer had been...