PRIVATE EQUITY popularity and PRIVATE EQUITY trends

He made his name raising charity aid for Africa. So how can Bob Geldof justify spearheading a fund that could make him massive profits from the continent?

Uncle Sam seems to be gearing up to take more tax dollars from Mitt Romney and his brothers in the private-equity fraternity.The Internal Revenue Service is preparing rules and guidelines in the event that "carried interest" -- the money private-equity firms pay current and former executives like Romney every year, if the firms do well -- gets taxed like regular income, Reuters reports.Many peo...

WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. tax regulators are preparing for a potential tax hike on profits earned by private equity managers such as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney known as...

LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - Private equity firm PAI Partners has pulled out of the race to buy Iglo Group, Europe's biggest frozen food company, leaving Blackstone and BC Partners as frontrunners for...

The sovereign wealth fund and private equity firms look to invest in the ecommerce group as it seeks to raise funds to buy back shares from Yahoo

Shares of Talbots tumble on Friday after the women's clothing retailer says the private equity firm Sycamore Partners walked away from talks over a proposed $215 million buyout of the women's clothing retailer.

Private equity firms are not net job creators and they sure don't need that crazily huge distortionary tax break. If a former PE guy were to run for president, I'd like to hear him emphasize those two points.

President Obama is still trailing his likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney among middle-class white voters whose economic anxieties remain high. According to a new Washington Post-ABC poll, white voters who described themselves as struggling to stay afloat backed Romney 55 to 32 percent. Among white voters who say they know someone who has been laid off, 56 percent back Romney to 32 percent f...

Campaigns battle over economic benefit of private equity firms, as Romney's record at Bain targetedVIDEO: What Do PE Firms Do? ROVE: Why Romney Has Good Shot at Beating ObamaObama Calls Romney's Words 'Cow Pie of Distortion'

Private equity firm Apax is set to lose up to €400m (£324m) after being forced to launch a sale process for its medical courier company, Marken.

Veteran private equity player and former Magna executive plan to offer ‘wise, all-encompassing advice’

Tamara Mellon, who built the Jimmy Choo shoe empire from a small East End business to a global luxury brand, is a serious player, not just a well-shod advertisement for her wares.

Foreign private equity companies should be treated equally with domestic ones.

Mitt Romney is defending his time at private equity firm Bain Capital after strongly worded attacks from the Obama campaign.

A top adviser to Mitt Romney told reporters Wednesday that he welcomes a continued debate over the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s career at private equity firm Bain Capital. President Obama this week defended his campaign’s attacks on Romney’s role in overseeing layoffs at some companies during his tenure at the buyout firm he founded as “fair game.” On Wednesday, Romney senior a...

PRESIDENT OBAMA isn’t backing down from his campaign ad attacking Mitt Romney’s private equity firm, Bain Capital. Actually, “attack” may be too weak a description for a video that likens Bain to “a vampire” and depicts Mr. Romney as a plutocrat who callously destroyed hundreds of steel jobs for his own enrichment. Several prominent members of Mr. Obama’s own party thought the commercial was a...

Three investment groups have bought a 21 per cent stake in Formula One from private equity firm CVC Capital for $1.6 billion (€1.26 billion) ahead of the motor racing company’s planned flotation in Singapore.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has for the first time publicly approved of video attacks on his Republican rival Mitt Romney’s record as the founder and former chief executive of Bain Capital, one of the US’s largest private equity firms.

Is all of the attention on Bain helping the GOP achieve its goal of pretending W was never president?

Quikr, India's largest online and mobile classifieds portal, announced today that it has raised $32 million in series E financing, led by New York City-based private equity giant Warburg Pincus. The company's existing investors, which include Matrix Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and eBay, also participated in the funding. The investment is Quikr's fifth and largest financing to date, foll...

Newark Mayor Cory Booker says GOP attempts to use his words about private equity against President Obama are "cynical."

President Obama argued the focus of the ad was fair, saying Mitt Romney was making his claim on the presidency based on his experience in private equity.

Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark sharply criticized an advertisement about Mitt Romney’s private equity work.

Not the big opening day investors were expecting.

Andrew Leonard of Salon interviewed Charles Ferguson (director of Inside Job, the documentary about the unpunished criminals who caused the current financial collapse) about his new book, Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America Ferguson: I recently was at a dinner in New York City and one of the people there [...]

Geld her! Junge Unternehmen brauchen erstmal ein Finanzpolster, um durchstarten zu können. Möglichkeiten gibt es viele, ob Business Angel, Private Equity oder Crowdfunding. Der Überblick zeigt, wie Gründer an das Risikokapital privater Geldgeber kommen - und worauf sie dabei achten müssen.

Private-equity investors are taking a role in the economic reconstruction of the Mideast, North Africa in the aftermath of last year's Arab Spring revolutions.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney do battle over Mr Romney's record as a private equity executive, as the US election ad wars heat up.

US president Barack Obama's campaign has released a video calling Mitt Romney's private equity firm a job-killing "vampire" that ran a steel mill into the ground, signalling a new effort to carve into Mr Romney's image of corporate success.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign released a video on Monday calling Mitt Romney's private equity firm a job-killing "vampire" that ran a steel mill into the ground, signaling a new effort to carve into Romney's image of corporate success.

President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new negative campaign ad.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is launching a sharp critique of Mitt Romney's business record, airing a hard-hitting TV ad that recounts the demise of a Kansas City, Mo., steel mill that was restructured by Romney's private equity firm and led to hundreds of job losses....

(Reuters) - Concho Resources Inc said it would buy all of the oil and natural gas assets of Three Rivers Operating Company LLC, a portfolio company of private equity firm Riverstone Holdings LLC, for $1 billion in cash.

A question most companies can easily answer comes with complications when posed to publicly traded private-equity firms: What count as earnings?

Cinesite, a leading visual effects company in Britain, has changed hands. Eastman Kodak, which has owned the company since it was established in 1991, sold Cinesite to Endless LLP, an independent British private equity house with holdings in non-entertainment companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. Kodak, based in Rochester, N.Y., filed for bankruptcy protection in January and recently r...

Junge Unternehmen brauchen Geld, um zu wachsen. Ob Business Angels, Private Equity oder Crowdfunding: Der Überblick zeigt, auf welchen Wegen Gründer an Risikokapital privater Geldgeber kommen - und worauf sie dabei achten müssen.

Nokia is in advanced talks to sell its UK-based luxury brand Vertu to private equity group Permira, the Financial Times reports citing sources f…

INDUSTRIAL services company Spotless has agreed to a full takeover by private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners (PEP).

SERVICES giant Spotless is set to change hands after its board yesterday finalised a historic agreement to hand control to a private equity group.

In the handbook of private equity investing techniques, few make more intuitive sense than the "roll-up." Borrow some money, buy up small players in a fragmented industry, cut costs, find synergies, juice profits, increase multiples, pay down debt, and sell at a profit. Financial operators have done it well in waste management, funeral homes, and advertising. Now Bain Capital (yes, the company ...

SHARES in industrial services company Spotless have been suspended from trading pending an announcement about its takeover talks with a private equity firm.

Moskau (ots/PRNewswire) - Investoren mit verwaltetem Vermögen von über einer Billion Pfund nehmen teil Über einhundert leitende Vertreter von Londons führenden internationalen Private Equity Fonds sowie Vertreter von britischen Unternehmen treffen heute im Mansion House in …

More private equity investors are flocking to Africa, drawn by the prospect of outsize returns due to the continent's stunning potential.

A private equity firm has bought a UK college with its own degree-awarding powers for almost £200m.

(Reuters) - Openwave Systems Inc, which makes software for mobile phones, said it will sell its core service mediation and messaging products businesses to a private equity firm as part of its plan to sell its portfolio of about 200 patents.

US telecom giant AT&T sells the Yellow Pages to a private equity firm for $950m (£600m).

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm KSL Corp raised its bid for Great Wolf Resorts Inc by 12 percent to $234 million as it works to top rival buyout fund Apollo Global Management in their...

China has set a minimum amount that a single investor can put into a venture capital or private equity fund in an attempt to help the sector develop steadily, according to an official at the National Development and Reform Commission.

Europe's most senior financial regulator has hit back at "rearguard lobbying" by the hedge fund and private equity industries, saying he "will not be intimidated" by an attempt to undermine a deal to regulate the industry for the first time.

Love from private equity can be bittersweet.

PRIVATE equity firm will keep 333 stores open

(Reuters) - AOL Inc has received buyout offers from private equity firms and has hired Evercore Partners Inc to help it sell its over 800 strong patent portfolio, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

Six mois jour pour jour après les premières informations sur le projet d'Axa de vendre sa filiale de capital-investissement, certains banquiers se demandent si l'assureur ne devrait pas profiter du rebond des marchés actions pour introduire en Bourse Axa Private Equity au lieu de la céder. Axa a...Articles en rapportANALYSE-Axa Private Equity pourrait être introduite en BourseL'assurance-vie re...

Privately held telco supplier Avaya Holdings this morning said it will purchase video conferencing and collaboration equipment and software maker Radvision (RVSN) for $230 million, or $11.85 a share, a 6% premium to Wednesday’s close of $11.20. Hence, RVSN stock is up 55 cents at $11.75 in pre-market trading. Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy said Radvision [...]

The 30-year-old stylish actress was not certain whether her sexy leather look would be appropriate for the Montgomery Technology Conference, an event with over 1000 senior-level private equity and venture capital investors and corporate industry executives.

(Reuters) - As Bain Capital LLC prepares to market a multibillion-dollar fund, investors say the private equity firm's performance is its biggest problem -- not the 15 years it was run by presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

Firmenjäger müssen kleinere Brötchen backen: Die Finanzierung von Übernahmen reicht immer öfter nur für Minderheitsanteile – zur Freude deutscher Mittelständler.

THE outdoor advertising industry has undergone its second major shake-up in less than a week after shareholders in Ooh!Media yesterday voted to approve a private equity bid for the company.

KARACHI - Abraaj Capital, a leading private equity manager investing in the rapidly growing economies of the Middle East, Turkey, Asia and Africa, on Friday announced the acquisition of Aureos Capital (Aureos), a global private equity fund management group investing in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Asia, Africa and Latin America, says a press release. The acquisition of Aureo...

Private equity millionaire and Labour Party donor Nigel Doughty has died at the age of 54.

Mike Filippou is a Greek who looks like a Greek. If you imagine the bushy dark-brown mustache labelled “Greek” in the makeup man’s box, Filippou has the very one. It goes east and west under his nose and then turns southward past the corners of . . . (Subscription required.)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released tax records on Tuesday indicating he will pay US$6.2-million in taxes on a total of US$42.5-million in income over the years 2010 and 2011.

How can Mitt Romney and other fund managers lower their tax rate significantly? Tax lawyer Jack Nutter explains.

Mitt Romney, the Republican frontrunner, is a formidable candidate -- on paper. But he was caught flat-footed by the controversy over his background in private equity.

As private-equity firms are under scrutiny, an explanation of where they get their money: investors ranging from pension plans and charities to global insurance companies and university endowments.

Mitt Romney has made the biggest slip-up of his campaign so far, saying he liked "being able to fire people", just as his opponents started rounding on him for the "predatory" nature of the private equity firm he ran for 14 years.

The fresh attack on the GOP frontrunner takes aim at Romney’s role at private equity firm Bain Capital

INDUSTRIAL services company Spotless Group has requested its private equity suitor increase its takeover bid to $743 million.

Wow. That's all I can really say. Who would have ever believed that .XXX would finally be approved AND launched, total domains registrations would continue to grow at 10% year over year, ICANN would be in the process of preparing for the launch of new gTLDs in the face of harsh criticism, and that both Go Daddy and Group NBT would be acquired by private equity firms. As we look back over ...

theodp writes "Back in 2005, Wharton's Michael Useem speculated that IBM's sale of its PC Division to Lenovo was more about ingratiating Big Blue with the Chinese government than getting top dollar for the assets. 'Government relationships are key in China,' Useem explained. Now, a NY Times article on outgoing IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano seems to confirm that Useem's analysis was spot-on. From ...

Mitt Romney will amerikanischer Präsident werden. Sein Vermögen hat er mit Private Equity gemacht. Das könnte ihm jetzt zum Verhängnis werden.

The group is led by Michael Ferro of private equity firm Merrick Ventures and Timothy Knight, former publisher of Newsday.

Last summer #1 registrar Go Daddy announced that the company had entered into an agreement with 3 private equity firms to make a strategic investment n the company. That agreement was finalized today. Terms of the deal were not announced but it likely involved hundreds of millions of dollars going to Go Daddy .

London (ots) - ~ - Die europäische Staatsschuldenkrise wird ein Fünftel der institutionellen Private-Equity-Anleger (LPs) von Investitionen abhalten - Die Hälfte der LPs hat "Zombie-Fonds" in ihren Portfolios und sieht für diese meist keine Lösung - ...

La société d'investissement Eurazeo est monté de 94% à 97,57% dans le...

Private equity firms Blackstone Group and Bain Capital reported to be working with Alibaba to make full bid for web portal that would value above earlier bids by Microsoft and othersPrivate equity firms Blackstone Group and Bain Capital are preparing a bid for all of Yahoo with Asian partners in a deal that could value the web portal at about $25bn (£16bn), a source told Reuters on Wednesday.Th...

This week, Yahoo's board reviews bids from a range of buyers for a minority stake in the company, including various private equity companies and a consortium that includes Microsoft. But none of these candidates has been able to say publicly what they would do to transform Yahoo.

BNP Paribas envisage de vendre un portefeuille de capital-investissement valorisé plus de 700 millions de dollars (525 millions d'euros environ), rapporte ce matin le Financial Times .

Yahoo is reportedly contemplating a large sale of stock to one or more private equity firms. But does it mean battle-scarred shareholders will lose out on a valuable sale opportunity?

China's Alibaba Group and Japan's Softbank are in talks with private equity firms about making an unsolicited bid for Yahoo!, according to the Bloomberg financial news agency.

By Yi-Wyn Yen Yahoo's fate is becoming more convoluted every day. Just two days after the Times of London reported that talks between Microsoft and Yahoo were back on, the the Wall Street Journal says former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller is trying to raise money from private equity and sovereign wealth investors to buy the struggling Internet company. Shares of Yahoo (Y...