Riverstone Holdings LLC has named former BP plc chief executive and Apax Partners Worldwide LLP chairman John Browne as a managing director and managing partner of Riverstone Europe. Brown will
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Home Depot Inc. reportedly was close to accepting about $1.2 billion less for the sale of HD Supply, its wholesale distribution business, as uncertainty about whether the deal would close
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We’ve written at length about how using virtual data rooms has made conducting due diligence for M&A deals much easier (look here, here and here). Although the benefits typically
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Depending upon sources, private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. may postpone its $1.25 billion initial public offering. The Times of London is reporting that investors are showing
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There is a lot of talk in the press and blogosphere that a number of big buyout deals may be called off as banks seek to renegotiate terms as
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The Topps Co. on Friday, Aug. 17, sent a letter to shareholders reiterating that the $9.75 a share, $385 million buyout offer from Tornante Co. LLC and Chicago private
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Magazine publisher Ziff Davis Media Inc. has hired restructuring advisers Alvarez & Marsal LLC to help restructure $390 million in debt after failing to make a bond interest payment
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John Edwards It seems Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is not the only presidential hopeful with private equity holdings. Joining Romney — at least for now — is Democratic
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Only a few months ago, business journalists — ourselves included — were pondering who the "next big buyout" candidate would be. Talk centered around Cedar Fair, Home Depot and
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Just 48 hours after it appeared the battle for Midwest Air Group Inc. was nearing its final stages, the airline on Wednesday prolonged one of the year's longest-running melodramas
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In a bizarre twist, Lone Star Fund V (U.S.) LP has extended its tender offer for all outstanding shares of Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co. until midnight, Aug. 28,
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Student loan company SLM Corp. said Wednesday that its shareholders had approved the $25 billion take-private agreement with J.C. Flowers & Co., Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase
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Quadrangle Group LLC wasted no time making changes after closing its purchase of magazine publisher Dennis Publishing Inc. The New York-based buyout firm has changed the name of the
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