January to December 2007 Overseas Investment Office Decisions Commentary and Index prepared by CAFCA (Note: the OIO decisions quoted here can be viewed here) Contents…
2007
Analysed decisions of the Overseas Investment Office for 2007.
January 2007 decisions One application refused Pepsi buys Bluebird Foods for $245 million from Burns Philp Independent Liquor purchased by PEP/CCMP led consortium for $1.25b…
February 2007 decisions One application refused Blue Star Print Group sold to CHAMP Private Equity for $173 million Wesfarmers of Australia buys insurance broker Crombie…
March 2007 decisions One application refused – to buy Upper Mataura Angler’s Lodge Allco takes remaining 50% of Strategic Finance and restructures ownership … ……
April 2007 decisions Canadian-led consortium purchases Yellow Pages Ironbridge acquires EnviroWaste Services from Fulton Hogan for $379 million Failed takeover of APN News and Media…
May 2007 decisions Veda Advantage acquired by PEP and Merrill Lynch for $1 billion ING buys Remuera Gardens Retirement Village and Epsom Village… … AMP’s…
June 2007 decisions Singapore Government and Babcock & Brown buy Alinta for $8.5 billion… … and Babcock & Brown then buys Glenbrook for $232 million…
July 2007 decisions CVC private equity takes holding in PBL to 75% CIP Canada acquires Stratos Global of Canada which owns sensitive land Icelandic storage…
August 2007 decisions Purchase of Taipo Forest land near Masterton declined approval Brunswick of US buys remaining 51% of Rayglass; government embarrassed Barbarians getting close:…
September 2007 decisions Brookfield Asset Management of Canada buys Multiplex for A$4.2 billion Dominion Property Funds sets up $250 million Australian fund to buy property…
November 2007 decisions Yet another (overseas) owner for DCA (including Guardian Healthcare) 1 Pacific Equity Partners has approval to buy Hoyts. 2 Ex-NSW Premier and…
December 2007 decisions City Pacific of Australia takes share in Bastion Point retirement village Holcim buys North Otago land for buffer zone to proposed new…