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Technology behemoth Microsoft has provided one of the biggest ever mezzanine loans to fund US buyout group Silver Lake’s record-breaking, $24bn buyout of Dell.

Technology behemoth Microsoft has provided one of the biggest ever mezzanine loans to fund US buyout group Silver Lake’s record-breaking, $24bn buyout of Dell.

Technology-focused Silver Lake Partners and its fellow investors in voice-over-internet protocol business Skype are set for a huge return following the company’s sale to technology group Microsoft.

The software giant has bettered by $2 per share an earlier offer by the media and communications buyout firm during Greenfield Online's go-shop period.

Microsoft has acquired Screen Tonic, a Paris-based technology company specialising in advertising on mobile devices, off 3i.

Microsoft has acquired Screen Tonic, a Paris-based technology company specialising in advertising on mobile devices, off 3i.

Former employees of Microsoft continue to be key players in the operations of the venture capital world. By David Rapp.

Following a 2003 policy change in the way it deals with its intellectual property, the computer giant this week launched Microsoft Intellectual Property Ventures, which will work in conjunction with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to license 20 technologies to startups and small companies.

The $219bn pension has been using tools like Copilot to assess distribution sources such as NAV loans, dividend recaps and exits related to its funds.

In today's edition, Private markets eyes a new narrative beyond the anti-ESG rhetoric; Arkansas is the latest US public pension upping its PE pacing; Large public companies are leveraging PE to develop AI features.

If you build A-grade businesses through a growth-focused, product-first value creation strategy, it is still possible to pull off great exits, says Permira’s co-CEO Brian Ruder.

Private equity firms have always focused on cutting costs in portfolio companies. Today, strategies are evolving again to suit a volatile and low-growth environment.

Deal origination has so far failed to feature highly among the early use cases for generative AI in PE, but that is beginning to change.

Temasek is overhauling its investment structure in response to a changing world. Plus: A Blackstone fundraising update; and hope on the horizon for China's exit market. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

The pace of Japan’s digitalisation has been painfully slow, but it’s an opportunity private equity is keen to target. By Vicky Meek

Initiatives to boost workforce diversity, motivation and happiness can pay dividends for investors, explain NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka, Kiyomi Matsuda and Kurama Sato.