Tags / Firm

GENERAL Tue Aug 19, 2008 @ 3:02pm neoform

news.yahoo.com -- 2 hours, 43 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm Carlyle Group (CYL.UL) said on Tuesday its Chairman Louis Gerstner will retire and become a senior adviser to the company's buyout funds. Carlyle did not identify a successor, but said it.. Read More

GENERAL Mon Aug 11, 2008 @ 9:01am neoform

news.yahoo.com -- 2 hours, 19 minutes ago BEIJING (Reuters) - Top global logistics firm United Parcel Service (UPS.N) hopes to buy a firm in China and boost staff there in coming years, and said on Monday that paying billions for rival TNT (TNT.AS) would devalue its own.. Read More

ECONOMY Thu Aug 7, 2008 @ 9:02am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading global law firm Linklaters LLP today announced that Jeffrey Schmidt, the current Director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), will join the firm’s New York office as a Competition/.. Read More

M & A Sat Aug 2, 2008 @ 9:03am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bill Gates' investment firm may exercise its right to buy up to 20 percent of trash hauler Republic Services Inc's (NYSE:RSG - News) stock, according to a filing on Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The fir.. Read More

GENERAL Sun Jul 27, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

news.yahoo.com -- By Megan Davies 54 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - Storied private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR.UL) plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange later this year in a complicated transaction that involves buying its publicly listed Amst.. Read More

GENERAL Fri Jul 25, 2008 @ 3:02pm neoform

news.yahoo.com -- By Robert Campbell 2 hours, 57 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dramatic collapse of energy trader SemGroup LP shocked the privately held firm's backers who until last week had little idea of the extent of the oil trading losses that sank it, source.. Read More

M & A Fri Jul 25, 2008 @ 9:01am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN - News), through its strategic communications arm, FD, today announces the acquisition of Kinesis Marketing, a strategic online communications firm, which represents.. Read More

M & A Thu Jul 24, 2008 @ 3:03pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- SAN FRANCISO (AP) -- An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo Inc.'s entire board Thursday, reducing the chances that the Internet company's directors will be ousted for spurning Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover b.. Read More

M & A Thu Jul 24, 2008 @ 9:02am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sagent Advisors Inc., a leading independent M&A advisory firm, today announced that Abid Rizvi and Scott Moses are joining the firm’s Consumer & Retail Group in New York. Mr. Rizvi, formerly of Merrill Lynch, joins as a Manag.. Read More

M & A Wed Jul 23, 2008 @ 3:02pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK (Reuters) - A law firm said on Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit on behalf of Genentech Inc (NYSE:DNA - News) shareholders over the proposed buyout of the company by its majority shareholder, Roche Holding AG (VTX:ROG.VX - News). The suit conten.. Read More

M & A Wed Jul 23, 2008 @ 9:01am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan's largest insurer, said Wednesday it plans to acquire U.S.-based property and casualty insurance firm Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. for $4.39 billion in cash. Tokio Marine will pay $61.50 per s.. Read More

SMALL BUSINESS Tue Jul 22, 2008 @ 9:00am neoform

www.entrepreneur.com -- Elie Ashery had already seen two of his dreams come true. He raised $12 million in venture capital for a dot-com and used the proceeds from its sale to buy his first house. Later, as a serial entrepreneur stuck at a consulting firm, Ashery wanted nothi.. Read More

M & A Thu Jul 17, 2008 @ 3:05pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte announced today that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Solbourne Computer Inc., an innovative systems integration firm that provides enterprise services based on Oracle Fusion Middleware technolo.. Read More

M & A Fri Jul 11, 2008 @ 3:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- PLANO, Texas (AP) -- Technology services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp. said Friday proxy advisory firm ISS Governance Services, a division of RiskMetrics Group, recommended that its shareholders vote for its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard Co. A.. Read More

GENERAL Mon Jul 7, 2008 @ 9:01am neoform

news.yahoo.com -- Mon Jul 7, 2:22 AM ET (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co (MER.N) is moving closer to selling stakes in financial firm BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) and information provider Bloomberg LP in an effort to raise cash to make up for $6 billion in coming write-downs, the.. Read More

M & A Thu Jul 3, 2008 @ 12:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perkins+Will announces today that The Environments Group, a Chicago-based firm with deep expertise in designing corporate and commercial interiors, has merged with the global integrated design firm. With 65 professionals and supp.. Read More

M & A Tue Jul 1, 2008 @ 12:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- DARIEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rogerscasey, a globally-diversified consulting and financial services firm based in Darien, Connecticut, has acquired a Canadian investment consulting firm, Perimeter Capital Management Inc. (PCMI). PCMI will now be known a.. Read More

M & A Mon Jun 23, 2008 @ 3:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- WASHINGTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading global consulting firm, announced today the acquisition of Marcu & Asociados, a top HR and financial services consulting firm in Argentina. Established in 1990, Marcu & Asoci.. Read More

MARKETS Mon Jun 23, 2008 @ 9:00am neoform

money.cnn.com -- Private equity not gone yetMore Videos Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman has seen his firm's stock value get cut in half since its IPO last year.NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Blackstone Group isn't celebrating a happy first anniversary as a public company... Read More

GENERAL Sun Jun 22, 2008 @ 3:00pm neoform

news.yahoo.com -- Sun Jun 22, 7:05 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. oil services firm Halliburton said it has ended talks to buy UK rival Expro (EXR.L) after its target refused to open an auction and opted for a 1.8 billion pound ($3.5 billion) rival bid. Expro Internation.. Read More