Posted 5 hours ago

The sigh of relief on Thursday, May 15 tied to a modest drop in oil prices was short lived, as crude oil prices spiked on Friday, May 16 to close at a record $126.29 per barrel on the New York...

Posted 6 hours ago

Here's a preview of all of the dealmaking events you need to know about for the week of May 19th. The HSR Act expires for British drug company GlaxoSmithKline's $720 million purchase of Sirtis...

Posted 8 hours ago

With foreign private equity firms charging into India, it was only a matter of time before homegrown funds formed. One of the firm's leading the charge is India's ICICI Bank Ltd., which is...

Posted 8 hours ago

Another day, another union has come out against a rumored deal between United Airlines' parent UAL Corp. and US Airways Group Inc....

Posted 9 hours ago

The parade of SPAC IPOs may have slowed to a crawl in 2008, but those special purpose acquisition companies already out looking for acquisitions are finding that the private equity firms they once...

Posted 9 hours ago

With newspaper publisher the Journal Register Co. slowly sinking toward bankruptcy, talk of the Gray Lady swooping in to save it is the talk of the town, if that town happens to be New Haven, Conn....

Posted 9 hours ago

At The Deal's Fifth Annual Private Capital Symposium, Gary Parr, vice chairman at Lazard, spoke about the rise of sovereign wealth funds. In this clip, Parr explains why sovereign wealth funds are on.

Posted 10 hours ago

CBS Corp. said it would pay $11.50 per share,or nearly $1.8 billion, for Cnet Networks Inc. CBS is hoping the deal will help the company expand its reach on the Internet. The deal comes as Cnet's...

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Posted 10 hours ago

Portfolio's Felix Salmon has an interesting take on why CBS Corp. would be a great acquisition for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. now that it is acquiring CNet Networks Inc. He writes: Berkshire doesn't...

Posted 12 hours ago

At The Deal's Fifth Annual Private Capital Symposium Hamilton Tony James, the president and COO of the Blackstone Group LP, spoke about the benefit of loose debt covenants. James attributes the...