News and developments in Asia private equity from Reuters News for the week ending July 6. News and developments in Asia private equity from Reuters News for the week ending July 6.
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Exclusive: Get cable owners seek 1 billion euro sale - sources
Cable groups Get and Multimedia Polska are going on the block with a combined pricetag of more than 1.7 billion euros
UPC, private equity eye Poland's Multimedia: sources
Private equity groups and local rival UPC are circling Multimedia Polska MULPO.UL Private equity groups and local rival UPC are circling Multimedia Polska MULPO.
Linde to raise over 1 bln eur in private share sale
German industrial gases producer Linde aims to raise over 1 billion euros ($1.23 billion) in fresh equity to fund the $4.6 billion purchase of U.S.-based Lincare Holding.
Hawker Beechcraft in talks with Chinese company for $1.8 billion sale
Bankrupt aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft Inc said it is in exclusive talks with a little-known Chinese aerospace firm over the sale of the company for $1.79 billion.
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South Korea's Lotte Shopping Co Ltd (023530.KS) said it had signed a deal to buy a controlling stake in electronics retailer Hi-mart Co Ltd
Buyout firm KKR (KKR.N) is set to buy German cutlery and coffee machines maker WMF AG (WMFG.F) for at least 587 million euros ($727 million).
Private equity form CVC wants to sell its Danish retailer Matas while Nordic peer Altor is preparing to sell Swedish food supply business Eurocater.
Israel's IDB Development Corp sold 49.9 percent out of its 60.5 percent stake in Clal Industries and Investments (CII) to U.S.-based Access Industries for 1.27 billion shekels ($325 million).
U.S. buyout fund Carlyle Group LP said on Thursday it has acquired 49 percent and effective control of China's Mandarin Hotel Holdings Ltd for an undisclosed sum.
Charterhouse is close to selling French engineering group Fives to AXA Private Equity Charterhouse is close to selling French engineering group Fives to AXA Private Equity, people familiar with the deal said, potentially the second big sale for the British private equity firm in just one week.
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC is pushing ahead with a $4 billion sale of Getty Images Inc.
One Equity Partners, JP Morgan Chase & Co's private investment arm, will buy technology services firm M*Modal for about $1.1 billion in cash.
Australian regulators are probing the withdrawn A$1.65 billion ($1.7 billion) takeover offer for David Jones by a little-known Britain-based firm.
