Private equity firm Apollo braving the merger markets with its hunt on a burglar-alarm vendor ADT

Apollo Global Management; market cap as of 19/02/2016: $2.70bn ADT Corporation; market cap as of 19/02/2016: $6.59bn   Introduction US private equity firm Apollo Global Management has agreed to buy ADT, an American home-security company, paying c.$11bn for a total enterprise value in the so far biggest leverage buyout of Read more…

Tyco sells its Korean unit to Carlyle for $1.93bn: the largest private equity buyout in Korea since 2008

Tyco International: Mkt Cap $20.23bn (as of 07/03/2014) The Carlyle Group: Mkt Cap $1.72bn (as of 07/03/2014) On 3rd March, Tyco, the world’s largest fire alarm and security system company, announced that it will be selling its Korean unit ADT Korea to the private equity Carlyle Group. Carlyle is paying Read more…