Advent International LP seeks to sell about a third of a €4.2 billion ($4.9 billion) buyout loan for Polish parcel-locker company InPost SA to a group of banks, before the rest is marketed to institutional investors.
Swedish buyout firm EQT AB is tapping funding from the Qatari sovereign fund as it prepares to make a binding bid for Volkswagen AG’s large marine engine unit by a deadline next month, people with knowledge of the matter said.
From Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics: Microsoft is reportedly offering voluntary buyouts to up to 7 percent of its employees
Private equity firms manage some $1 trillion of global capital, yet because they are highly secretive, much remains unknown about their internal economics. How do PE firms organize themselves, for example, and how do they capitalize on their success?…
Credit market turmoil is altering the global playing field in buyouts and acquisitions, a field rife with complaints in recent years about too much money chasing too few good deals.…
With private equity investors of all types flush with cash -- from venture capitalists and hedge funds to large leveraged buyout (LBO) firms such as The Blackstone Group and The Carlyle Group -- private financing hit record levels in 2006 and is likely to…
When General Motors last month offered buyouts and early retirement packages to 113,000 hourly workers, the move focused new attention on a key aspect of the continually evolving relationship between employers and employees.…
