Acosta Inc., the marketing firm owned by Carlyle Group LP, has gone bankrupt after big consumer-product firms decided to do more of the work themselves to keep up with changing consumer tastes. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Wilmington, Delaware, with...
U.S. apparel and footwear conglomerate VF Corporation and buyout funds Permira and Advent are lining up indicative offers for Italian shoe brand Golden Goose ahead of a mid December deadline, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Golden Goose, owned by...
European equities’ cheap valuations have turned the region into a honeypot for private-equity and arbitrage funds looking to reap double-digit returns. With the buyout firms enjoying a massive amount of dry powder, especially with interest rates this low, the trend is...
One of the largest homegrown Asian private equity firms is marketing a new buyout fund to invest in Korea, Japan and China. One of the largest homegrown Asian private equity firms is marketing a new buyout fund to invest in Korea, Japan and China. MBK Partners,...
At the height of the dot-com bubble, Silver Lake Partners arrived in Silicon Valley with a radical thesis. Technology companies, it hypothesized, finally had sufficient physical assets and cash flows to benefit from the type of private-equity financial engineering... 