Cable television operator Charter Communications Inc has agreed to acquire Bright House Networks in a roughly $10 billion deal, according to a source familiar with the matter, in the latest round of consolidation that has swept the cable industry, Reuters News reported.
1 min read · 31 March 2015
Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said it would buy U.S. biopharmaceutical firm Auspex Pharmaceuticals Inc for an equity value of $3.5 billion to boost its portfolio of treatments for the central nervous system.
2 min read · 30 March 2015
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC has told investors it will seek to raise a new $12 billion global fund, just two years after amassing a $11.2 billion fund, sources told Reuters.
3 min read · 30 March 2015
Bain Capital is preparing to launch a A$2.8 billion ($2.16 billion) initial public offering of Australian software firm MYOB Ltd as early as Tuesday, the Australian newspaper reported on Monday.
1 min read · 30 March 2015
Britain's Interoute, a high-capacity data network and corporate cloud services provider, is taking on new private equity investors to fund acquisitions across Europe and the United States, the company said on Monday.
2 min read · 30 March 2015
Slovenian state investment fund SDH said it was in talks with two bidders for Zito , denying a newspaper report that the food producer would be sold to Croatia's Podravka.
1 min read · 30 March 2015
European private equity firm Bridgepoint has raised 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) for its fifth buyout fund, exceeding its fundraising target by around 15 percent as investors allocate more money in search of higher returns, Reuters News said.
2 min read · 30 March 2015
Surgery Partners LLC is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) in the summer that could value the private equity-owned surgical center manager at about $2 billion, including debt, sources told Reuters News.
1 min read · 30 March 2015
Swiss drugmaker Novartis is digging deeper into the world of cancer immunotherapy - one of the hottest areas of drug research - through a tie-up with California-based Aduro Biotech worth up to $750 million, Reuters News reported.
2 min read · 30 March 2015
A California jury ruled Friday to clear venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers of gender discrimination in a lawsuit brought by a former woman partner, but the judge ordered jurors to resume deliberations on a claim of retaliation, Reuters reported.
2 min read · 27 March 2015
