Defence group Cobham has made a $3.6bn offer to buy UK-based Ultra Electronics, in a bid that could draw scrutiny in Britain due to Cobham’s U.S. ownership. Shares in London-listed Ultra, whose major customers include the British and U.S. governments, soared as much...
Global investment firm The Carlyle Group is looking to raise as much as $27bn in what would represent the industry’s biggest ever buyout fund. Carlyle is in discussions with investors about the size of the fund, according to Bloomberg reports citing insiders, which...
Shares of Sema4 Holdings Corp, a genetic-testing and health-data analytics business spun out of the Mount Sinai Health System, are set to start trading Friday after the business combined with a blank-check company backed by Casdin Capital and Corvex Management....
Uber Technologies’s Freight unit is buying technology-focused logistics services provider Transplace in a cash and stock deal worth about $2.25bn that extends the ride-hailing giant’s reach into the U.S. domestic shipping sector. Uber reached an agreement to acquire...
Baird Capital, the global private equity and venture capital arm of Baird, has held the final close for its second Global Fund (Global Fund II) with over $340m in committed capital. The fund makes buyout and growth equity investments of 15m to 40m in Technology &...
