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Carlyle Sells $1.25 Billion Deal Repackaging Private Equity Fund Stakes

Carlyle AlpInvest bundled up and sold private equity fund stakes in a $1.25 billion securitization, using a complex type of ...

The Big Ten and private equity: Why college sports’ richest conference is doing its homework

Oher leagues and institutions that once were bullish on private equity have backed off, but the Big Ten is patiently ...

Australia’s Iress in Takeover Talks With Private-Equity Firm Blackstone

Australian financial-technology provider Iress said it is in talks with Blackstone, having already considered an earlier ...

This Private Equity Auction Is an Indictment of London’s Market

Spectris has failed to achieve such ratings as a public company due to weaker profitability, low scale and relative ...

Not-So-Private Equity’s Retail Push Irks Traditional Clients

Some of the world’s biggest investors in private equity are worried they could lose their special status as thousands of retail investors get invited into an asset class that had been reserved for ...

Private equity’s 401k dream comes true

Historically, the firm had a provision in its fund contracts that allowed up to 7.5 per cent of the equity in any deal to go to other KKR entities, such as its own employees’ investment vehicles. When ...

Revolution Beauty rejects bid from private equity firm True, sources say

Jo Crowley and Charlie Conchie LONDON (Reuters) -Revolution Beauty has rejected a takeover offer from specialist private ...

JCPenney location in Minnesota involved in $1 billion sale of 119 stores to private equity firm

In late July, a private equity firm announced it would pay $947 million for 119 JCPenney stores, including one in Minnesota.