Creative financing

28 September 2007 By Lauren Silva

Financing is hard to come by, but Cerberus and Bain both pulled off multibillion dollar leveraged buyouts in the past week. These deals illustrate the increasingly creative tactics buyout barons must embrace to keep their fee machines running.

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3Com Corporation signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Bain Capital for approximately $2.2 billion in cash. As part of the transaction, Huawei Technologies will acquire a minority interest in the company and become a commercial and strategic partner of 3Com.

NewPage Corporation and Stora Enso Oyj announced the signing of a definitive agreement by which the NewPage will acquire Stora Enso's paper manufacturing operations in North America. Under the terms of the agreement, Stora Enso will receive approximately $1.5 billion in cash, a $200 million note, and a 19.9% equity interest in the new company.

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