Further Global and Stone Point Capital to acquire professional services group Permira is to sell Duff & Phelps, the professional services group it acquired only two years ago, to two private equity firms in a $4.2bn deal. Buyout groups Further Global — which was...
Softbank-backed (9984.T) Fortress Investment Group has raised its offer for Unizo Holdings Co (3258.T) by 27% to 5,200 yen per share after Blackstone Group (BX.N) sweetened its offer as the bidding war for the Japanese hotel operator heats up. U.S. private equity firm...
Private equity accounted for a massive 80 percent of all data center acquisitions that closed in 2019, driving data center M&A to new heights. Private equity firms are taking over the data center market, accounting for approximately 80 percent of all data center...
Overlapping ownership in companies participating in some of last year’s biggest mergers and acquisitions may be prodding regulators to pose a new set of questions. The Federal Trade Commission is asking businesses that seek to merge to identify who their largest...
Activist investors have worked hard to improve their image over the past few years. The hooligans of corporate America have swapped saber-rattling for soft power and found that there is still money to be made. Take Starboard Value. The hedge fund sounded loved up last... 