Last week private equity firms Apollo Management LP and TPG filed documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., the gaming firm the two firms...
HCA Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCA) is surging on news this morning that could be a very valuable lesson for private equity IPO situations.  The company is repurchasing a whopping 80,771,143 shares of...
In the next few days Dow Chemical (DOW) is expected to announce a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint venture with India’s largest petrochemical producer, Reliant Industries Ltd. ...
Loose lips sink ships.  Maybe mergers are not as secretive as discussing military secrets, but the world of M&A and private equity has some new buzz: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is considering acquiring...
There is an interesting trend where Barclays has essentially cut its rankings on hedge fund and private equity operators. Here are the calls, plus a call elsewhere on a bank: Blackstone (NYSE: BX)...
Source: Jon OggWe had two rather large secondary offerings today where private equity firms are unloading stock.  The tally was about $3.4 billion that the market had to absorb in new shares as...
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is holding a public secondary offering of 25 million shares which are being sold by private equity backers who still own a large part of the company.  The king...
Shares of small cap outsourcing firm Ibex experienced continued momentum over the past week.
Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) is rumored to be back in play.  If you will recall, this was the subject of a private equity buyout back during the private equity bubble and its $6.5 billion...
There is a menagerie of companies with stocks that look like the boulevard of broken dreams because of the woes in the stock market and economy in January.  But no group looks as bad as the...
Private equity firms are known for finding value and milking additional value out of many public companies.  Some companies are very generic and bought for cash flow, while others are unique and...
The 2011 Class of Private Equity-Backed IPOs is really off to a rough start.  The market conditions of late have all culminated to create a cautious IPO environment and even a cautious private...
Subway likely will be sold to private equity for $10 billion, but it could be a risky move.
Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) looks like it is going to get a much stronger foothold in China.  A report from Reuters has the private equity giant in talks with the local city government of...
TIBCO Software announced Monday morning that private equity firm Vista Equity Partners would be taking it private.