PE firms circling around Yahoo

Private equity firms have been circling around the second biggest U.S. search engine Yahoo lately, according to Reuters. Yahoo has a current market value of more than $20 billion. Silver Lake Partners was involved in early negotiations, while Blackstone was pitched the idea but was not thought to be working on a deal. According to Bloomberg, Yahoo is working with Goldman Sachs on ways to defend against takeover.

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