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  • KKR, Silver Lake Vie for Hulu With Yahoo as Bids Heat Up

    Updated 19 minutes ago

    KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Management LLC are vying with Yahoo! Inc. to acquire Hulu LLC, escalating a bidding war that has attracted cable and satellite TV, private equity, a talent agency and media mogul Peter Chernin.

  • Warburg Would Get Threefold Return in Bausch Transaction

    Updated 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

    Warburg Pincus LLC would reap more than a threefold return on its $1.7 billion equity investment in Bausch & Lomb Inc. if talks to sell the eye-care company for $9 billion bear fruit, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

  • Valeant Said to Be Near to Acquiring Bausch & Lomb

    Updated 14 minutes ago

    Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., Canada’s largest drugmaker, is close to acquiring Bausch & Lomb Holdings Inc., the eye-care company owned by Warburg Pincus LLC, for about $9 billion, said a person with knowledge of the negotiations.

  • Gleacher Fires Chief Executive Thomas Hughes, COO John Griff

    Updated 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

    Gleacher & Co. fired Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Hughes and Chief Operating Officer John Griff a day after the struggling brokerage’s biggest shareholder took control of the board.

  • Ex-Cerberus Managing Director Settles Termination Suit

    Updated 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

    Cerberus Capital Management LP settled a suit filed by a former managing director who claimed she was wrongfully fired after trying to correct misleading marketing materials.

  • Duke Street in Talks to Sell Stake to France’s Tikehau

    Duke Street Capital Ltd., owner of Britain’s Wagamama restaurant chain, is in talks to sell a stake in itself to a French investment firm after dropping plans to raise a new private-equity fund last year, two people with knowledge of the talks said.

  • Saks at Priciest Means KKR Mulls Neiman Merger: Real M&A

    KKR & Co., the buyout firm weighing an investment in Saks Inc., may need to get creative to extract more value from what’s already the most expensive U.S. department-store stock.

  • Vantage Power Targets U.K. Double Deckers for Hybrid Engines

    Vantage Power Ltd., a U.K. company founded by two engineering graduates who drove from Alaska to Argentina in an electric car, plans to be fitting its hybrid engines into 1,000 double-decker buses a year by 2017.

  • Latham & Watkins, Kirkland, Weil Gotshal: Business of Law

    Updated 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

    Latham & Watkins LLP’s Zachary Fardon was nominated by President Obama to be U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. He would replace Patrick Fitzgerald, who left last June and joined Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.

  • 3i Makes Offer to Buy Barclays Infrastructure Funds Division

    Updated 47 minutes ago

    3i Group Plc said it offered to buy Barclays Plc’s European infrastructure-fund business as the U.K.’s biggest publicly traded private-equity firm seeks to boost investments in the region’s physical assets.

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