Si concordo Mark: è il motivo per cui l'avevo postato.
Una acquisizione di tal fatta mi ricorda in modo pesante qualche operazione nel mio settore che hai poi generato problemi...Capitoli (11-12 etc.) e ...Capitomboli..
Intanto arrivano voci di interessamento del ramo di Goldman Sachs attivo nel private equity insieme con TGP e Bain...
UPDATE 2-Buyout trio mulls HeidelbergCement stake -sources
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* TPG, Goldman and Bain jointly consider bid -sources
* PAI Partners "an interested observer" -source
* HeidelbergCement shares top MDAX index gainers (Adds second source on Bain, analyst comment, PAI, CDS move, changes dateline)
By Philipp Halstrick and Simon Meads
FRANKFURT/LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs and U.S. private equity firms TPG and Bain Capital are considering jointly buying a stake in HeidelbergCement, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
HeidelbergCement, the world's fourth-biggest cement maker, declined to comment.
The company is controlled by the family of German billionaire Adolf Merckle who committed suicide earlier this month. The Merckle group of companies has been forced to put up financial assets as collateral for bank loans they are getting to help refinance.
Goldman Sachs and TPG also declined to comment. Bain was not immediately available.
HeidelbergCement was the top riser on Germany's mid-cap index, after an earlier report in the Wall Street Journal that Goldman's buyout arm, possibly in partnership with TPG, was considering a bid.
Shares in the company were up 9.7 percent at 31.6 euros at 1717 GMT, after having slid 15.5 percent during the week on market speculation the company may issue new shares to shore up its balance sheet.
"HeidelbergCement is highly cash-generative so it's an interesting business model for private equity," said an analyst who declined to be named, adding that the company's rivals would also be interested in taking the opportunity to study its books.
He added he expects the company's banks to increase pressure on the Merckle family to sell a stake in the business and said they may push for the entire stake of more than 80 percent to be divested.
HeidelbergCement said late on Tuesday it planned to bolster its capital base and restructure its large debt load.
A source familiar with HeidelbergCement's situation said the company saw one or more investors taking a stake in the firm as one possible option to strengthen its equity base but that the thinking was at an early stage.
The company had net debt of 12.29 billion euros at the end of September, down from 14.61 billion at the end of 2007, but up from just 3.08 billion at the end of 2006.
French private equity firm PAI Partners declined to comment on the WSJ article, which said it was considering a separate investment. But a source close to PAI said it was an "interested observer" of the situation.
In the credit derivatives market, the cost of insuring HeidelbergCement's debt against default fell slightly but remained at "upfront" levels, at which buyers of credit default swaps have to make a large down-payment.
Five-year CDS on HeidelbergCement tightened to about 43.25 percent upfront from 46 percent, according to Markit data. That means it costs 4.325 million euros upfront and 500,000 annually to protect 10 million of debt against default.
(Additional reporting Christoph Steitz and Sarah Marsh in Frankfurt, Hendrik Sackmann in Stuttgart; editing by Simon Jessop and Erica Billingham)