Texas Pacific Group and Affinity Equity Partners are set to...speculation that it was on the verge of receiving a buy-out offer...represent the largest ever buy-out of a Singapore-listed company...be the latest in a string of private equity buy-out approaches...

Affinity Equity Partners, an...in a rare takeover of a mainland company...familiar with the matter, Affinity has secured approval to acquire 94 per cent of Beijing Leader & Harvest...The deal means that Affinity, which has earned a...has now spent half of its $2.8bn fund. This...

...The fund aims to raise £300m with a maximum of 50 per cent gearing. It will have a target IRR of 14 per cent.●Aureos Capital will bring out a...businesses. The ASE AF 11 will make investments of $2m-$10m in the region.●Real I.S is adding BGV...

...business cannot be anaesthetised, so in cases of corporate gangrene it is best to cut quickly...announcement that 2,500 staff, or a third of the total, are for the chop at AOL is a...Armstrong prepares for the December 10 spin-out of AOL stock to Time Warner shareholders, the...

AOLon Thursday said it would cut a third of its global workforce, or about 2,500 jobs...save $300m annually.The move comes ahead of its planned spin-off from Time Warner next...will take a $200m charge in the first half of 2010, the company disclosed in a regulatory...

...being auctioned with an estimated price tag of about £1.5bn.TPG, Blackstone, Warburg Pincus...Boston-based buy-out specialist and owner of the discount retailer Poundland, has also...successful, Richard Baker, the former head of Boots and an operating partner at Advent...

...stores nationwide, reported sales of Won235bn ($204m) last year.Affinity has a strong record in both entering...group sold Himart, a retailer of consumer electronics, for $2...two years before. This time, Affinity is reportedly asking for at least...

...and women paid to sell high cannot call the top of the market, who can? Gartmore Group's plans to...shareholders, is expected to value the group at upwards of £500m - or comfortably more if the raft of investment banks involved talk up the tale. Fund...

...Shanghai laboratories and make China the third pillar of its global research and development capabilities...seeking to recruit local expertise, take advantage of lower costs and expand their presence in one of the world's fastest-growing drugs markets.Mr Vasella...

...It is expected to issue another tranche of shares enabling Hellman & Friedman, the...management buy-out three years ago, to sell most of its 58 per cent stake. The group is expected to price the issue in the next couple of weeks and list in the second or third week...