Private equity firm KKR is in advanced talks to buy Australian outsourcing company Probe Group in a deal that could value it at about $871m, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.S. buyout firm is in exclusive discussions with Probe’s owners including...
A new trading cards business launched by sports retailer Fanatics has raised $350m in fresh capital from new and existing investors at a valuation of $10.4bn, according to a person familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by Reuters. The latest financing round...
Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, Little Rock, committed a total of $550m to 11 investment funds, confirmed Rod Graves, deputy director of the $21.2bn pension fund, in an email. At its meeting Monday, the board agreed to commit $95m to Juniperus Insurance...
Italy’s Serie A, almost universally recognized as the world’s top soccer league in the 1990s, these days sits well behind England’s Premier League and Spain’s La Liga in the European pecking order. A growing number of American investors, however, believe that better...
Software-focused private-equity firm Thoma Bravo is selling a 45% stake in Command Alkon Inc., a provider of supply-chain-management software for the heavy construction industry, to HeidelbergCement AG in a deal that values the company at about $1.7bn, according to... 