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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Rayovac Corp. , the third-largest US maker of batteries, plans to buy lawn-and-garden products maker United Industries for $476 million, people familiar with the transaction said.
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INDIANAPOLIS - New Jersey-based health care products giant Johnson &amp; Johnson is buying Guidant Corp., one of the world&#39;s top makers of cardiac devices, for about $25.4 billion in cash and stock.
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The orthopedic device maker on Thursday accepted a takeover bid of $11.4 billion from a private equity consortium.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.  has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $32 billion in the largest leverage buyout in history, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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Triad Hospitals Inc.  was expected to announce as early as Monday morning that it was selling itself to private-equity buyers for about $4.4 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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The Boston Scientific Corporation, the maker of medical devices, said on Thursday that it had agreed to sell its fluid management and venous access businesses for $425 million to the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners.
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NEW YORK/BOSTON  - Nuveen Investments Inc. , the biggest manager of closed-end mutual funds, agreed on Wednesday to be acquired for $5.75 billion by investors led by private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners LLC in the largest buyout of an asset manager.
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NEW YORK -- Johnson &amp; Johnson will acquire Guidant Corp., one of the world&#39;s leading makers of cardiac devices, for about $25.4 billion in cash and stock.
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PARAMUS, N.J. -- A group led by Vornado Realty Trust boosted its offer for Equity Office Properties Trust to $23.24 billion, or $56 per share, in cash and stock on Thursday, topping a private equity firm's buyout bid.
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Battery maker Rayovac Corp. ROV.N is  close to a deal to acquire privately held United Industries  Corp., a maker of lawn and garden products, for about $476  million in cash and stock in a bid to diversify its product  mix, sources close to the situation said on Monday.
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Computer retailer CDW Corp.  became the latest company to be swallowed up by a private equity firm, announcing on Tuesday it had agreed to be bought by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC for $7.3 billion.
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Alliance Laundry Holdings, a commercial laundry equipment manufacturer, on Wednesday said its private equity owners agreed to sell the company to Teachers&#39; Private Capital for about $450 million.
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LAS VEGAS -- Private equity bidders extended their shopping spree for casino companies yesterday as Station Casinos Inc. said it received a $4.7 billion buyout offer from its founding family and an affiliate of Colony Capital LLC.
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Arts and crafts retailer Michaels   Stores Inc. MIK.N on Friday agreed to sell itself to two   private equity groups for more than $6 billion in a deal that   attracted many of the world's biggest buyout firms.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced that it will acquire Guidant Corp., one of the world&#39;s top makers of cardiac devices, for $25.4 billion US.
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An agreement has been reached on the sale of Cheyne Finance, a structured investment vehicle now known as S.I.V. Portfolio, to bidders including Goldman Sachs, the fundâs receivers, Deloitte & Touche said. The $7 billion S.I.V. Portfolio, managed by the hedge fund Cheyne Capital Management, went into receivership in September. The agreement comes after talks with a number of bidders over the last few weeks and consultation with the informal creditorsâ committees, Deloitte said. Under the deal, certain reinvestment opportunities will be offered to some existing creditors of the company. S.I.V.âs, held by banks, hedge funds or other institutions, issue a mixture of short-term debt and capital and buy longer-term assets, which may pay more interest than the amount they pay on their notes. The vehicles encountered trouble in August when liquidity in the credit markets dried up as investors faced exposure to the subprime market.