Footwear retailer Brown Shoe Company Inc is in contention to acquire women's luxury shoe retailer Stuart Weitzman Holdings LLC, in a deal that could reach $1 billion, Reuters reported.
1 min read · 03 December 2014
Canadian buyout firm Onex Corp is in talks to buy a UK safety and survival equipment maker from Warburg Pincus LLC for about 450 million pounds ($704 million), Reuters said citing a Bloomberg report
1 min read · 03 December 2014
Japanese toymaker Tomy Co on Wednesday said it would spend up to 6.7 billion yen ($56.10 million) buying back around 10 percent of its outstanding shares, including 4.6 percent from U.S. private equity firm TPG Capital Management LP, Reuters reported.
1 min read · 03 December 2014
A high-profile $2.02 billion leveraged loan for Tibco Software is the latest US buyout deal that has been forced to add expensive perks to attract buyers as risk-averse investors hold out for better terms amid a market correction, Thomson Reuters Loan Pricing Corp. reported.
4 min read · 03 December 2014
Brazil's Vale SA is considering listing part of its global base metals business, sources told Reuters, as the miner looks to fund capital projects amid a collapse in iron ore prices.
2 min read · 02 December 2014
Deutsche Bank is negotiating the sale of its stake in London hedge fund Arrowgrass Capital Partners to private equity firm Foundation Capital Partners, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
1 min read · 02 December 2014
Swedish Match AB and Skandinavisk Holding, the owners of Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG), are in talks with private equity firms about a possible sale of the cigar maker, sources told Reuters.
2 min read · 01 December 2014
The TCW Group, a global asset management firm, said on Monday that it has launched two new funds, the TCW High Dividend Equities Fund and the TCW Global Real Estate Fund.
1 min read · 01 December 2014
Intel Corp said on Monday it has acquired PasswordBox, a Montreal-based identity management service that gives users a convenient way to log into websites and applications from any device without having to type or remember passwords.
1 min read · 01 December 2014
The UK's largest seller of second-hand vehicles British Car Auctions (BCA) is seeking to raise a minimum 148 million pounds (232.30 million US dollar) of new loans to refinance debt and pay a dividend to owners after pulling a planned stock market listing, banking sources said on Friday.
2 min read · 01 December 2014