Private equity-owned companies are again raising debt to pay their owners dividends, just as warnings sound about saddling businesses with more leverage in the midst of a downturn. This month Baltic telecommunication firm Bite and U.S.-based Epicor Software Corp. have...
Private investment firm RedBird Capital Partners has announced it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as it looks to take a new blank check company public. The company, RedBall Acquisition, has applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the...
French private equity firm Eurazeo (EURA.PA) has invested $33 million in Thought Machine, a British-based fintec company founded in 2014 by former Google (GOOGL.O) engineer Paul Taylor which has set up software systems for banks. Eurazeo added on Tuesday that Thought...
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed global financial markets into a prolonged period of volatility and uncertainty (see our article on the impact of COVID-19 on M&A deal flow), reminiscent of the 2007-08 financial crisis. Many businesses have languished since March....
The private-equity industry is pouring millions of dollars into the 2020 elections, with some donors hoping to prevent full Democratic control of Capitol Hill and the potential for tighter oversight of their sector. Employees of private-equity firms and other... 