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TPG is Among Suitors Eyeing Paragon
LONDON (Reuters UK) - U.S. private equity firm TPG is among a group of suitors circling UK lender Paragon PARA, just weeks after it pulled out of a deal to take a key stake in rival Bradford & Bingley BB, a source close to the matter...
Bradford & Bingley at Fresh Low on Outlook Woes
By Clara Ferreira-Marques LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in troubled British bank Bradford & Bingley Plc BB accelerated their losses on Tuesday, hitting a fresh low amid concerns over its outlook even after an enlarged 400 million pound ($789 million) cash call. At 0812...
Bradford & Bingley at Fresh Low
By Clara Ferreira-Marques LONDON (Reuters UK) - Shares in troubled bank Bradford & Bingley BB accelerated their losses on Tuesday, hitting a fresh low amid concerns over its outlook even after an enlarged 400 million pound cash call. At 9:12 a.m., stock in the largest buy-to-let...
FSA Says Closely Monitoring Bank B&B
By Sudip Kar-Gupta AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters UK) - The chairman of Financial Services Authority FSA said the regulator was closely monitoring Bradford & Bingley BB, the bank whose shares have slumped on concern about its business plan. Bradford & Bingley (B&B) on Friday increased its rights...
B&B Ups Rights Issue Size
By Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters UK) - Bradford & Bingley on Friday increased its rights issue to 400 million pounds after U.S. investor TPG Capital pulled out of buying a stake as concern deepened about the bank's business plan. Private equity firm TPG withdrew after ratings...
UK Bank B&B Ups Rights Issue Size After TPG Quits
By Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters) - Bradford & Bingley BB plans to increase its rights issue to 400 million pounds ($794 million) after U.S. private equity firm TPG Capital pulled out of a plan to buy a stake, sending its shares lower. TPG...
Bradford & Bingley Publishes Fundraising Prospectus
LONDON (Reuters UK) - UK lender Bradford & Bingley BB said on Tuesday that it had published the prospectus for its proposed 400 million pound fundraising. The fundraising comprises a 19-for-25 rights issue at 55 pence per share and a private equity lifeline by which TPG...
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Biomet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Financial Results
WARSAW, Ind. -- Biomet, Inc. announced today fourth quarter and fiscal 2008 financial results for the year ended May 31, 2008. As previously announced, Biomet Inc. finalized the merger with LVB Acquisition Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of LVB Acquisition, Inc. on September 25, 2007. LVB Acquisition,...
National 'Day of Action' on WaMu: Workers, Consumers to Protest 'Toxic' Spread of Higher Fees, Rate Hikes
Protesters in HazMat suits to call attention to greedy practices by WaMu, private equity giant TPG WASHINGTON, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- As working families and consumers are hit hard by national economic crises such as home foreclosures, skyrocketing credit card interest rates, and obscene overdraft and late...
B&B's big four investors want Cowdery back
Clive Cowdery, boss of the Resolution buyout fund, has turned down approaches from Bradford & Bingley's big four investors to return to the mortgage lender once its 400m rights issue is underwritten. Mr Cowdery has not ruled out coming back to B&B at a later date but...
Texas Pacific proves a man of straw as magnificent four ride to the
Outlook Believe it or not, there are some positives to be drawn from the debacle that is Bradford & Bingley. One is that despite the lily- livered behaviour of Texas Pacific Group, an alternative recapitalisation on almost exactly the same terms has been quickly put in place...
TPG faces City backlash after shareholders rage at U-turn
Angry shareholders railed against Texas Pacific Group yesterday in the wake of its shock decision to pull its 179m investment in Bradford & Bingley. Investors were left fuming after TPG withdrew its offer to buy 23 per cent of B&B after ratings agency Moody's cut the bank's...
B&B sinks ever lower as investors play the blame game
Regulators' intervention triggered TPG walk-out Rights issue at risk as shares slide 18% The Financial Services Authority and the Bank of England encouraged Texas Pacific Group TPG to walk away from buying a 179m stake in Bradford & Bingley, it emerged yesterday, believing they had secured...
TPG ends plan to invest in British bank Bradford & Bingley
LONDON AFP — Bradford & Bingley said on Friday that US investment group TPG Capital had pulled out of an agreement to buy about one quarter of the struggling British bank. B&B had agreed earlier this month to sell a 23-percent stake to TPG Capital for 179 million...
TPG aims to win over unhappy B&B investors
TPG, the US buyout group, is to hold a series of meetings with Bradford & Bingley shareholders over the next few days to build bridges and outline its plans in the run-up to the vote on its proposed 179m investment in the beleaguered bank. A source close...
The Definitive Agreement Between Strauss Group and TPG Capital was Signed Today
TEL AVIV, Israel, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - TPG Capital to Acquire 25.1% Stake in Strauss Coffee for US $291 Million Upon conclusion of the due diligence review by TPG Capital, the definitive agreement with TPG Capital was signed today, whereby TPG Capital was allotted 25.1% of...
Kent digs in but it's mud in the eye for Bradford & Bingley's
Rod Kent, pack your bags - your time as chairman of Bradford & Bingley is up. Or at least it should be. Is it mere coincidence that that he has presided over not one but two bungled takeover processes this year, twice depriving long- suffering shareholders of...
Cowdery backs out of Bradford & Bungling farce amid bitter
OUTLOOK Salvation denied. There was Clive Cowdery, entrepreneur and value- creator extraordinaire, standing at the door with a barrow-full of money and the massed ranks of adoring investors arrayed behind him, and what do those incompetents at Bradford & Bingley and Goldman Sachs do? They send him...
B&B pulls it back from the brink - phew...
PRIVATE INVESTOR Oh, look! Bradford & Bingley is the only one of my recent banking punts to be in the money. At 80p or so I'm up a fifth on the nadir I bought at a few weeks ago, when they seemed all but done for. All...
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