Private-equity firms are starting to look a bit more like insurance investor Berkshire Hathaway. KKR this week announced plans to acquire Global Atlantic Financial Group, paying $4.4 billion in a deal that, subject to regulatory approval, would place the insurance...
Silver Peak Systems Inc., a networking company backed by venture capital firms Greylock Partners and TCV, is exploring a potential sale that could value it around $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The Santa Clara, California-based company is...
-Largest Life Sciences Private Fund Raised to Date -Blackstone Life Sciences has already invested and committed nearly $1 billion from this fund over the past three months, demonstrating strong demand for the strategy Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced the...
SoftBank’s Vision Fund has been making the news recently, and not in a good way. The massive corporation – led by Masayoshi Son, Japan’s richest man, initially started as a software distribution platform in 1981, and over the course of 39 years, the company...
Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. is closing in on a 400 million-pound ($504 million) rescue led by Davidson Kempner Capital Management after the U.S. hedge fund offered more favorable terms than other potential backers, people familiar with the matter said. Davidson...
