AP sources: Simon Property weighs higher buyout offer for rival mall operator General Growth Simon Property Group Inc. is considering raising its $10 billion buyout offer for rival shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. as early as this week, two people ...
Tribune bondholders sues bank lenders who financed 2007 leveraged buyout Bondholders in the Tribune Co.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case are suing the banks that financed the media company's 2007 leveraged buyout, claiming they knew that the resulting debt load would leave Tribune ...
<div><p>In the first half of 2007, private equity firms were making frequent purchases and pulling in substantial profits. While equity firms are still raising impressive amounts of capital for their investment funds, tight credit market conditions are forcing large buyout shops to ...
<div><p>What is happening to newspapers in New Jersey over the last few months? The New York Times has emptied out its Newark and Trenton bureaus; The Bergen Record, as former senator Bob Torricelli likes to remind us, is shutting down its Hackensack ...
<div id="subtitle">Washington Post launches another round of buyouts, fourth since 2003, to counter lost revenue</div><div><p>The Washington Post announced it plans another round of buyouts in its newsroom and throughout the newspaper as it seeks to cut costs.</p><p>It is the ...
<div><h1> READ IT AND REAP? </h1><p>The market's crash during the past year has discredited many of the informal rules that investors rely on. Safe havens such as health-care and utility stocks dropped almost as much as the rest of the market, and ...
<div><p>To begin our 2008 conference, Carl Tannenbaum, vice president, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, offered some broad remarks on the financial environment and how it has affected private equity.1 The recent financial turmoil has dramatically altered the landscape for private equity, particularly ...
<div><p>It has been a challenging year for the private equity buyout sector. Deal volume is down, credit is scarce, dealmakers are nervous, and the economy is challenging. With money still in their funds, private equity buyers need to turn away from the ...
<div><p>In 2006, the future of the private equity deal market looked bright. Halfway through 2007, the crash in the subprime mortgage sector sent ripples through the broader credit market, darkening the possibilities for many equity deals already in play. Now, as we ...
<div><p>Borrowers in the European bond markets have been on a roller-coaster ride in the past four months. Having grown accustomed over the past 18 months to almost ideal market conditions, the market took a sudden turn for the worse following the downgrades ...
