This may be the UAW’s last stand. Private equity interest like Cerberus Capital Management are moving into the automotive industry hoping to pick up assets on the cheap. The hedge fund has...
Bloomberg is reporting that JP Morgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS) and several other large investment banks have had to keep $11 billion in private equity debt. "The banks have had to dig into...
Vista Equity Partners has agreed to acquire health and wellness software platform provide Mindbody for $1.9 billion in cash. The price represents a premium of 68% to Friday's closing price.
Source: ThinkstockAeropostale Inc. (NYSE: ARO) surged on Wednesday after reports that the apparel maker has approached at least two private equity firms to see if there is interest in acquiring the...
It looks like Hill International is the target of a takeover bid by a private equity firm DC Capital Partners.
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (NYSE: LH) may soon be private if reports (or rumors) of a private equity buyout come true. There are now multiple reports that a private equity consortium is...
Aramark has been public a year now, and a new filing shows that the private equity backers intend to lock in some of their gains.
More and more discussions of IPO’s for hedge funds and private equity firms are more forthcoming today.  Blackstone, one of the largest private equity players in the US, may be coming...
TriZetto Group Inc. (NASDAQ: TZIX) is being acquired. Private equity firm Apax Partners will acquire health-care software company for $1.4 billion, or $22.00 per share.  This represents a 25%...
Some 80% of energy assets in top PE firms are fossil fuels.
Fortress Investment Group will see a wave of what would be considered to be insider selling. The private equity firm has announced that it has commenced a public offering to sell more than 28 million...
Source: ThinkstockTellabs Inc. (NASDAQ: TLAB) is being acquired in a go-private transaction. The deal values the telecom equipment maker at $2.45 per share, and a private equity firm named Marlin...
Have you wondered if the current environment was going to signal the death or a serious blow to the end of private equity as we know it?  It seems that the reports of private equity’s...
Private equity firms have been circling Chrysler in the hopes of getting a cut-rate deal for the US arm of DaimlerChrysler (DCX). There have also been press rumors that GM (GM) is looking at the...
There are still a lot of private equity deals to be closed. They were announced before the current credit disaster. And, many of them are not going to get broken off the way that the Sallie Mae (SLM)...