Article: COMMISSION CLEARS MESSER INDUSTRIE AND CARLYLE EUROPE'S JOINT BUY OF ARC WELDING GROUP.

Article: Carlyle in platform cutting & welding deal.(Carlyle Group funds ...
European Venture Capital Journal;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... teamed up with the Messer family to fund the acquisition by Messer Cutting & Welding of Switzerland's Eutectic+Castolin Group. The Messer family took control of Messer Cutting & Welding of Germany, a leading supplier of industrial cutting ...

Article: Carlyle in platform cutting & welding deal.(Carlyle Group to fund ...
European Venture Capital Journal;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... teamed up with the Messer family to fund the acquisition by Messer Cutting & Welding of Switzerland's Eutectic+Castolin Group. The Messer family took control of Messer Cutting & Welding of Germany, a leading supplier of industrial cutting ...

Article: Carlyle sells MEC.(Exits)(Carlyle sold mahority holdings of MEC ...
European Venture Capital Journal;  March 1, 2005 ;     602 words ... ... MEC Holding, a German welding and curing company, to Messer Industrie, for an estimated 150m [euro]. No financial details ... sale generated a 2x return for Carlyle. The deal will see Messer Industrie, which already owned a 49% share in MEC, become the ...

Article: Messer Negotiations Terminated by Mutual Agreement.
PR Newswire;  February 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... specifically the Aventis affiliate Hoechst AG (66.7 %) and Messer Industrie GmbH (33.3 %), have jointly decided with Linde AG ... by Hoechst AG in Messer. In line with the strategy of Messer Industrie GmbH, the Messer family will remain actively involved ...

Article: Germany's LBO financing market ignites: This year's deluge of ...
European Venture Capital Journal;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... of this year's volumes have been driven by recaps and secondary buyouts, with recaps for Cognis, Gardena, Memec, Messer Industrie and the forthcoming transaction for Gerresheimer Glas and secondaries for ATU, Grohe and Novem. According to S& ...

Article: Industrial gases deal.(Chementator)
Chemical Engineering;  February 1, 2004 ;     461 words ... ... de). The acquisition is related to the reorganization of Messer's ownership structure, with the Messer family (Messer Industrie GmbH) having reached an agreement with Alliance Capital Partners and private equity funds managed by Goldman Sachs to ...

Article: * Messer Cuts a Deal.
Chemical Week;  December 22, 1999 ;     512 words ...Messer Industrie (Konigstein, Germany), owned by the Messer family, will acquire the DM600-million($312 million)/year cutting and welding ...