Apollo has led a push to expand a program intended to keep loans flowing to small businesses and households by allowing for more kinds of assets to be offered as collateral. As government officials fight to prevent an economic depression by setting up emergency...
Private equity firm looking at technology, healthcare and consumer sectors The US private equity firm behind one of Europe’s biggest leveraged buyouts is seizing on the coronavirus pandemic to open talks with once-elusive takeover targets. Advent International, which...
Airbnb said Monday that it has raised $1 billion in debt and equity from private equity firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners, even as the online rental marketplace has seen its business plummet due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government plans to bring in new rules to protect German companies from takeovers by entities based outside the European Union. The bill would enable the government to block deals that present “potential interference” to German interests,...
The private-equity industry is pressing members of Congress and senior Trump administration officials, including President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to support policies that could help provide access to billions of dollars of stimulus funds to protect riskier... 