Covad sells to private equity firm for $304 million
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The once high-flying telecom provider is the latest in a long line of technology companies to be gobbled up by private equity firms.
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China-based Achievo has raised $24 million from private and institutional investors.
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Select Medical Corp. SEM.N, which  operates acute care hospitals, said on Monday it struck a deal  to be taken private in a $2.3 billion buyout led by a private  equity group, sending shares soaring 23 percent.
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Mortgage companies salvages sale to private equity fund by agreeing to a lower price.
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Two private equity groups -- The Carlyle   Group CYL.UL and Apax Partners -- said on Sunday they have   signed an agreement to sell healthcare marketing services firm   MediMedia USA Inc. to Vestar Capital Partners.
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Triad Hospitals Inc.  agreed to accept a $4.7 billion takeover offer from two private equity buyers, including the investment unit of Goldman Sachs, amid pressure from a hedge fund to boost its stock performance.
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By Mike Freeman, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Sep. 23--DivX, a San Diego maker of video compression software, got a  good start on its first day as a publicly traded company yesterday as its  shares jumped nearly 17 percent.
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Bayer AG, the German drug and chemical company, has agreed to sell its plasma products business for $590 million in cash and stock to the private U.S. investment groups Cerberus Capital Management and Ampersand ...
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Palm Inc.  will sell a 25-percent stake to Elevation Partners, a Silicon Valley private equity firm, for $325 million, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday.
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Ditching products, beefing services LogicaCMG has sold its telecoms products division to a private equity consortium for Â£265m.â¦
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Defense technology developer Foster-Miller Inc. of Waltham says it will be acquired for $163 million by Britain's QinetiQ Group PLC, a public-private partnership with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense.
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Financial service group Fortis has  moved to sell almost all of its remaining 36 percent stake in  Assurant, worth about $1.55 billion, after floating the U.S.  insurer nearly a year ago.
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Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. CTB.N on  Friday said it agreed to sell an automotive parts business to  two buyout firms for about $1.17 billion, the latest private  equity purchase in the sector.
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As part of its push to become a bigger player in cancer drugs, Genzyme Corp. of Cambridge said yesterday it will buy out business partner Bioenvision Inc. of New York for $345 million , consolidating its ownership of a cancer treatment to which the two companies had been sharing rights.
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The artificial joint maker accepted a bid of $11.4 billion from a private equity consortium.
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Two private equity groups -- The Carlyle  Group  and Apax Partners -- said on Sunday they have  signed an agreement to sell healthcare marketing services firm  MediMedia USA Inc. to Vestar Capital Partners.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson, the pharmaceutical and health care giant, has announced an agreement to buy Guidant, one of the largest US makers of devices to treat heart and circulatory illnesses, for $25.4 billion.