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The trail of broken shareholder hearts does not seem to be coming to an end. Data management company Acxiom (ACXM) is in talks with ValueAct Capital and Silver Lake about breaking off their plans to...
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There remains an issue about what to do with troubled banks, and the regulations over who can own banks and at what percentages only add more questions rather than answers. FDIC Chairman Sheila...
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In the first publicly reported transaction of its kind, independent energy producer Clayton Williams Energy announced Tuesday that it has closed a $350 million term loan transaction with private...
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Now that Goldman Sachs (GS) and KKR have walked away from Harman (HAR), the question is which private equity deal will fail next. Here is a short list of the deals that 24/7 Wall St. still think...
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By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights A lot being said this morning about the latest report from The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, chaired by Mike Bloomberg, which...
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Private equity firms are well armed with cash, and some on Wall Street think they may be close to a buying binge, especially where small and mid-cap tech firms are concerned.
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By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Big week in China as it celebrates the Lunar New Year and the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing with what’s expected to be a massive climate...
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BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. (NYSE: BJ) is the latest private equity buyout target in the retail segment. Two active players in retail industry buyouts, Leonard Green & Partners and CVC Capital...
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Source: ThinkstockPrivate equity took a bit of a bruising on its image during the presidential election in 2012. This sector of the financial services market was basically portrayed as the...
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Former SOL Global Investments CEO Andrew DeFrancesco has boosted his ownership position in the Toronto-based private equity firm.
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The business press has had its ear to the rail, and it has heard that more capital is headed toward private equity funds. Some of this money may be invested by the huge sovereign funds which have...
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Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is originally being viewed as a mixed debut for an initial public offering. The market remains a bit cautious when it comes to investing into private equity outfits...
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Blackstone (BX) is making a bid for miner Rio Tinto (RTP), at least according to The Telegraph. Rio has a market cap of over $150 billion, and will probably be sold at some kind of premium. That is a...
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We have already noted on numerous occasions how the floodgates for re-sales or re-IPO’s of old private equity acquisitions have to come back on the market. And now we have the first of many large...
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By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights As if the world of calculating forest and natural assets to be used as carbon offsets for big polluting businesses isn’t complicated enough, now...
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