March 1, 2007 - Private-Equity Firms To Consider Bids For HD Supply
The Financial Times newspaper first reported the teams: 1) Bain Capital, Carlyle Group and Clayton Dubilier & Rice; and 2) Blackstone Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Leonard Green & Partners and the Texas Pacific Group.
A third team possibly considering a bid, the Times says, includes Thomas H. Lee Partners, the buyout unit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and CCMP (the former private-equity arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co.).