●Earth Capital Partners is launching the ECP Renewable Energy Fund to invest in solar, biogas and biomass projects,

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The mere possibility that a $7.4bn technology merger in California might be blocked by regulators nearly half the world away

Five heavyweight private equity groups are among the first-round bidders for Matalan, the privately owned discount clothing

AOLon Thursday said it would cut a third of its global workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort to save $300m

A business cannot be anaesthetised, so in cases of corporate gangrene it is best to cut quickly and decisively. Thursday's

Rio Tinto, the global mining company that faced a huge debt burden a year ago, continued its recapitalisation drive as it

Apollo Management, the big private equity firm headed by former Drexel Burnham Lambert executive Leon Black, is planning to

Gartmore, the asset management group, is to float on the London Stock Exchange, raising at least £250m by issuing new shares

BACKGROUND NEWSAustralia's AMP has teamed up with French rival Axa to engineer a takeover bid for Axa Asia Pacific, the