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Providence may leave Clear Channel dealProvidence Equity Partners may drop out of a consortium that has agreed to buy US media giant Clear Channel Communications, casting doubt on the fate of a $27.5 billion deal that was nearly a year in the making.
- VSS buys career info site(4)
Veronis Suhler Stevenson has paid between $60 million and $85 million to acquire online career information company Vault.com.
- VSS buys career info site(3)
Veronis Suhler Stevenson has paid between $60 million and $85 million to acquire online career information company Vault.com.
- Dwight Poler: Countdown to 2008
Cross-border M&A trends will continue to play to Bain Capital's strengths in 2008, according to one of its managing directors.
- Clear Channel becomes latest LBO to extend closing
Bain and TH Lee have pushed back the closing deadline by six months for their $27.5 billion buyout of Clear Channel. Goldman Sachs recently did the same for its $1 billion buyout of Myers Industries.
- VSS buys career info site(2)
Veronis Suhler Stevenson has paid between $60 million and $85 million to acquire online career information company Vault.com.
- SAC Private Capital acquires Taiwanese bank at a steep discount(4)
SAC Private Capital, the private equity arm of a US hedge fund group, has acquired a control stake in Cosmos Bank at a discount, saving it from government receivership.
- Former Bain execs launch distressed-focussed firm
Prophet Equity, founded by former Bain & Company executives Ross Gatlin and George Stelling, will take its first fund to market in early 2008 with a $250 million hard cap.
- Mega-fundraisings face cloudy future(3)
Several of the world’s biggest private equity firms are already consulting with LPs about their next funds, but uncertainties about the pace of dealmaking and size of allocations are hampering these efforts.
- Mark Vickers: Countdown to 2008
Mark Vickers, law firm Ashurst's debt specialist, talks frankly about the challenges ahead in the final week of PEO's Countdown to 2008.