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Latest News in Private Equity
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June 28, 2017
Acquisition-Hungry TPG Blank Check Company Prices $400M IPO
TPG Pace Holdings Corp., a blank check company backed by private equity firm TPG and led by Hotwire.com founder Karl Peterson, priced a $400 million initial public offering on Tuesday, raising money to pursue an acquisition potentially in the technology, media or business service industries.
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June 28, 2017
Deals Rumor Mill: Sebia, KKR, Halliburton
A French, private equity-backed medical diagnostic equipment manufacturer could sell for €2 billion or more, KKR will rake in £1.4 billion through the sale of its stake in a Norwegian software company, and Halliburton has its eye on a U.S. oilfield equipment supplier backed by billionaire George Kaiser.
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June 28, 2017
Greenberg Traurig Adds Real Estate Attorney From Ropes & Gray
Greenberg Traurig LLP has added an attorney to its global real estate practice from Ropes & Gray LLP who brings 14 years of experience counseling institutional investors, funds and private equity firms on a wide range of complex real estate transactions.
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June 28, 2017
Blackstone Offers $651M For Singapore-Listed REIT
Private equity giant the Blackstone Group LLP said Wednesday that it has offered to buy Croesus Retail Trust, a real estate investment trust listed on the Singapore stock exchange, in a deal worth 900.6 million Singapore dollars ($651.2 million).
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June 28, 2017
Toshiba Aims To End Western Digital's Memory Sale Meddling
Toshiba told a Tokyo court that its joint venture partner, California-based Western Digital, is overstating its consent right to the Japanese company’s anticipated memory business divestiture in an effort to derail the roughly 2 trillion yen ($17.9 billion) transaction, calling the behavior anti-competitive, according to a Wednesday statement.
Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Private equity deals valued at $50MM or more
- Venture capital investments of $25MM or more
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Capital investments, including mezzanine and growth capital deals
- Joint ventures involving private equity firms
- Hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts
- Distressed investment deals
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Federal Trade Commission
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- International competition and securities regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- Delaware corporate law
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
- Private equity industry lobbying
- International banking legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Merger reviews
- Second requests
- Challenges and divestitures
- Litigation
- Antitrust suits
- Shareholder disputes
- Corporate governance fights
- Poison pill challenges
- Hostile takeover disputes
- Privacy and consumer protection suits
- Bankruptcy proceedings involving private equity stakeholders
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of private equity practices
Readership
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the private equity industry
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- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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