Invesco and Searchlight Capital Partners LP are lobbying creditors of Mediapro to back a restructuring deal enabling them to take a stake in the producer of top-flight Spanish soccer broadcasts left reeling by the pandemic. The investment firms sent a restructuring...
Billionaire William Ackman’s Pershing Square Tontine Holdings is in talks to buy 10% of Universal Music Group in a deal that would value the label at $40 billion and make it the largest ever investment by a blank check vehicle. Pershing would invest $4 billion to buy...
Technology-focused Alpine Investors is seeking $1.7 billion for its eighth fund, a goal that would make the fund the firm’s largest yet, according to people familiar with the fundraising effort. If the San Francisco firm’s fund hits its target, Alpine Investors VIII...
Private-equity firms KKR & Co. and Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC agreed to buy Cloudera Inc. for roughly $5.3 billion in a deal that would take the software company private. The pair on Tuesday said they would pay $16 a share for the data-cloud company,...
Tech investor Silver Lake has joined KKR as a shareholder of Exact, with the two American private equity groups seeking to team up to accelerate Exact’s growth. The Netherlands-based provider of software solutions and services has been owned by KKR since March 2019,... 