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...The seven investors — led by Silver Lake Partners and including TPG, Blackstone, Bain Capital, Providence, KKR and Goldman Sachs’ private equity unit — filed in June to sell SunGard via an initial public...
...The market is dominated by Bloomberg LP and Thomson Reuters, which have shares by sales of 32 per cent and 26 per cent respectively....
...The new company wasn’t named in the memo, but people familiar with the move expect her to take a job with First Data Corp., the Atlanta payment processor run by former J.P....
...Private equity groups raised $431bn last year, up 13 per cent from the previous year, according to data compiled by Preqin....
...Warburg secured $11.2bn and Silver Lake closed on $10.3bn earlier this year....
...to know about the latest in the Apple v Samsung patent litigation...
...jumbo $3.5bn bond, Asia’s biggest in a decade: “The offering pushed the value of bonds issued this year in Asia, excluding Japan, in either U.S. dollars, euros or yen to US$59.91 billion, according to data...
...According to data TPG sent investors at the end of the second quarter last year, excluding the regulated entity, $7.6bn in debt comes due in 2014 and 2015, $1.7bn in 2016 and almost $28bn after that....
...SunGard Data Systems, a $10.8bn Silver Lake-led transaction from the middle of the last decade that made giant tech buy-outs fashionable, has yet to produce the returns and the company is still private long...
...(Reuters) Non-EU companies won’t be exempted from data privacy rules, says EU commissioner for justice Viviane Reding....
...Asian stocks fell as poor data from the region’s biggest economies fuelled concern about growth....
...They may lack its algorithmic power but they do know the names of all the Great Lakes. But how precisely will Watson be integrated into the Citi structure?...
...However, fundraising in the sector last year was only $225bn, the smallest total in the past six years, according to Preqin, an industry data provider....
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...And Silver Lake was the losing bidder for Fifth Third....
...Silver Lake Partners, the US private equity group, has emerged as one of the favourites to buy GMS, which includes the Worldpay payment processing division....
...These included bids launched before the subprime mortgage crisis, such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG’s $45bn purchase of TXU, the energy group, and KKR’s $26bn acquisition of First Data, the credit...
...Based in northern New Jersey, Avaya has been battling against Cisco Systems and others for domination of the burgeoning market for IP telephone systems, which rely on data networks to route phone calls inside...
...Merger and acquisition activity yesterday was led by Alliance Data Systems . The issuer of private-label credit cards agreed to be acquired in a $7.8bn deal by Blackstone Group....
...Silver Lake Partners, another Silicon Valley buyout group, last year said it would buy Serena, an infrastructure software provider, for $1.2bn....
...The new poll data, released by Quinnipiac University, comes after Bloomberg received a slew of endorsements from local unions....
...The other firms that agreed to buy SunGard on Monday are Silver Lake Partners, which led the consortium, Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Providence Equity Partners...
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