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Buyout execs held
Megan Davies - Reuters- 31 March 2010
Executives from among the world's largest buyout firms on Tuesday met pension fund giant Calpers and other investors to discuss...
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Miners gear up for M&A flurry
Brenda Bouw - Globe and Mail- 31 March 2010
The merger and acquisition hunt is back on in the mining sector, as a rebound in commodity prices and a...
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Biotech lacks PE, VC funds' booster dose
Debojyoti Ghosh & Shreya Roy - The Financial Express- 29 March 2010
Notwithstanding the overly optimistic growth projections, India's $2.5 billion biotech industry, estimated to reach $5 billion by 2012, is still...
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Buyout rumors boost RadioShack stock
Maria Halkas - Dallas Morning News- 29 March 2010
Reports that RadioShack Corporation is looking to sell itself to private equity investors or be swallowed by Best Buy Company,...
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Durham tech firm gets growth funds
David Ranii - News Observer- 29 March 2010
Durham semiconductor company Nitronex has raised $16 million in venture capital, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange...
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Investec fund buys OK Zimbabwe stake
Edward West - BusinessDay- 25 March 2010
Investec Asset Management's Africa Frontier Private Equity Fund is finalising a private equity investment for a 10%-20% stake in OK...
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Equity firm set to buy Caritas
Robert Weisman - Boston.com- 25 March 2010
Caritas Christi Health Care, the state's second-largest hospital group, is set to disclose today that it has agreed to be...
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Buyouts hit record low point
M & A Deals- 25 March 2010
The overall value of European buyouts fell by 74 per cent in 2009 to €19.1 billion compared to 2008, representing...
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Tommy Hilfiger sold on the block
Heide Malhotra - The Epoch Times- 23 March 2010
Tommy Hilfiger Corporation, makers of the iconic American brand, once again was put on the block. This time the seller...
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UBS in talks over renminbi fund
Sundeep Tucker - Financial Times- 22 March 2010
UBS is in talks with the Beijing municipal government on setting up a renminbi-denominated private equity fund as the Swiss...
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Founders of Skype raise new VC fund
Tim Bradshaw & Maija Palmer - Financial Times- 22 March 2010
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have raised a new venture capital fund for investing in "disruptive"...
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Vanguard Health to buy DMC
Kim Kozlowski - The Detroit News- 19 March 2010
The Detroit Medical Center is expected to announce today it will be acquired by a private Nashville-based health system that...
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Private equity firm buys La Costa
Lori Weisberg - The San Diego Union-Tribune- 18 March 2010
A private equity firm with ties to the La Costa Resort and Spa has acquired the Carlsbad property in a...
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Shenhua looking at M&A deals
People's Daily Online- 17 March 2010
China Shenhua Energy Co., the nation's biggest coal producer, said it's looking to expand output with mergers and acquisitions and...
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US investment bank snaps up Caliburn
Eric Johnston - Sydney Morning Herald- 17 March 2010
Wall Street boutique investment bank Greenhill & Co. will buy Australian financial advisory firm Caliburn Partnership for an upfront payment...
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Apax eyes Polycom as shares surge
Helen Thomas & Neil Hume - Financial Times- 17 March 2010
Apax Partners has been in talks with Polycom, the largest maker of video conferencing equipment, about a deal to take...
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Citadel Capital to raise $2.25 billion
Shveta Pathak - Emirates Business 24/7- 17 March 2010
Citadel Capital, an Egyptian private equity firm, expects to raise $2.25 billion financing for an oil refinery, the company's managing...
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When buy-outs fail to work out
Lina Saigol - Financial Times- 16 March 2010
"I acted for a buy-out group and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." That's the slogan bankers are wearing...
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Distressed debt fund to list
Anousha Sakoui & Sam Jones - Financial Times- 15 March 2010
Neuberger Berman, the US fund manager spun out from Lehman Brothers following the bank's collapse, is to list one of...
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Halfords no to HobbyCraft
Andrea Felsted - Financial Times- 15 March 2010
Halfords is out of the race to buy HobbyCraft, the specialist arts and craft retailer, with US buy-out group Blackstone...
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Lone Star to sell its stake in KEB
Song Jung-a & Sundeep Tucker - Financial Times- 12 March 2010
Lone Star, the US private equity fund, is poised to resume the sale process of its controlling stake in Korea...
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PPF to make new move into private equity
Thao Hua - Pensions & Investments- 11 March 2010
Pension Protection Fund, London, will cut its equity allocation in half to increase its alternatives investments, including the £4 billion...
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Apollo to buy Citi real estate unit
Henny Sender & Justin Baer - Financial Times- 10 March 2010
Apollo Management has signed a preliminary agreement to buy Citigroup's property investment unit in a deal that would give Leon...
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One small step for venture capital
Karen Mazurkewich - Financial Post- 09 March 2010
A seven-year battle has finally ended. After years of singing the blues, Canada's beleaguered venture capital and private-equity groups got...
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State seeing venture capital dry up
David Wichner - Arizona Daily Star- 08 March 2010
Venture capital - the lifeblood of high-tech start-up companies - fell by nearly half in Arizona last year as investors...
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Private equity bidders eye IDC
Martin Arnold & Salamander Davoudi - Financial Times- 04 March 2010
Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times, has whittled down the bidders for Interactive Data Corporation, the financial data group...
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M&A activity in state of flux
Oliver Shah - City AM- 04 March 2010
The days of highly leveraged private equity deals are over, financial research group Mergermarket declared as it published its 2009...
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Barclays Private Equity sells Deb
Martin Arnold - Financial Times- 04 March 2010
Barclays Private Equity will today announce the sale of Deb Group, the maker of cleaning products including Swarfega, to Charterhouse...
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Citi to sell stake in Primerica
Guerrera, Thomas & Baer - Financial Times- 03 March 2010
Citigroup is to sell up to $330 million worth of shares in Primerica, its door-to-door insurance unit, to Warburg Pincus,...
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PE secondary deals seen picking up
Svea Herbst-Bayliss & Megan Davies - Reuters- 02 March 2010
After a year of little activity, investors are likely better positioned to sell stakes in private equity funds this year...
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Bain Capital considering RMB fund
Megan Davies - Reuters- 02 March 2010
Boston-based private equity giant Bain Capital is considering following a number of its rivals in raising a yuan-denominated fund in...
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