Buyout Firm Splits Up as Europeans Break Away
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The European arm of the firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst has split from its U.S. counterpart and plans to change its name.
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A merger of the Deutsche BÃ¶rse and London Stock Exchange would combine the cash equities businesses of both in a single unit to be managed out of London
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Kraft, the world's second-largest food and drinks firm, is to be spun off by its owner into a separate business.
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Struggling electronics firm considers breaking itself up in a move that could reshape the mobiles industry
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Officials of embattled Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. yesterday moved to squelch speculation that its Boston money management firm, Putnam Investments, will be divorced from its corporate parent, either in a sale to an outside buyer or through a private buyout engineered by Putnam executives.
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Eurocastle Investment, a London-listed group managed by US private equity group Fortress Investment, is to pay â¬300m (Â£210m) for a Deutsche Bank property portfolio, the latest deal in the vast property sell-off under way in Germany.
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FORT WORTH-In a dual-pronged move, Cash America International Inc. has exited the European market after a 12-year run and has dibs on buying a competitor to get a foothold in the Western US.
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A takeover attempt follows management shakeups at the biopharmaceutical firm.
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Business & money: Â· Credit crunch creates Â£210bn backlog of buyouts Â· US sub-prime crisis claims more jobs and firms
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A South Korean securities firm partly owned by billionaire financier George Soros has broken off talks to buy SK Securities, knocking its smaller rival's shares down by over 12 percent on Monday.
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Deutsche Telekom is changing its  management structure after poor quarterly results revealed that  Europe's biggest telecoms group by sales was no longer growing  in its German home market.
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Clayton, Dubilier &amp; Rice Inc. is leading a 2.6 billion-euro ($3.45 billion) buyout of an electrical- equipment supplier from France&#39;s Pinault-Printemps-Redoute SA, the New York-based firm&#39;s third European acquisition this year.
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Luc Vandevelde resigned as chairman of Carrefour SA in a shakeup that followed the disclosure that two new shareholders had acquired a nearly 10 percent stake in the world's second largest supermarket retailer.
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The transaction, between the company and a group of private investors, would be one of the biggest deals to take a company private
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MELBOURNE/TOKYO  - Buyout firm Blackstone Group  has become the latest to pull out of a consortium bidding for Australian retailer Coles Group Ltd. , a source said, further boosting the prospects of rival suitor Wesfarmers Ltd.
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The private equity firm blows up one of its marquee deals.