GLG sells stake, sets up U.S. listing
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GLG Partners, a European hedge fund with $20 billion under management, said on Monday it has agreed to sell a stake to Freedom Acquisition Holdings Inc.  in a deal that values GLG at about $3.4 billion and sets up GLG for a U.S. stock listing.
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Hollinger International, the US publishing group which this year ousted Conrad Black as its chairman, has declared a special dividend following the sale earlier this year of The Telegraph Group, its flagship newspaper asset.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 -- Fortress Investment Group became the first hedge fund to be traded publicly in the United States, and its shares soared Friday in a debut that's expected to catch the attention of many in the $1.3 trillion hedge-fund industry.
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AGL has agreed to sell its majority shareholding to Vector at $3.00 per share - a deal worth $877.4 million in total. Bloomberg noted that NGC would provide Vector with North Island gas pipelines, adding to
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- General Electric Co. (GE) said it will sell a majority interest in its India-based global business-processing operation GE Capital International Services for $500 million in cash to private
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British advertising agency company WPP Group PLC has clinched a deal to buy Grey Global Group of New York in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.
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GLG Partners, one of Europe's largest hedge fund firms, has lined up a U.S. stock market listing to help it expand and hire top managers, using a reverse acquisition with a shell company that values it at $3.4 billion.
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Swiss Life Holding on Friday said it agreed to sell most of its private-equity portfolio, valued at 400 million Swiss francs ($321.2 million), to an affiliate of a U.S. investment firm.
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NEW YORK, August 20 (New Ratings)  General Growth Properties Inc (GGP.NYS), the second-largest shopping mall operator in the US, has agreed to buy Rouse Company (RSE), in a cash and debt assumptions deal worth about $12.6 billion.
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Ritchie Capital Management LLC, a large Chicago-based hedge fund group, on Wednesday said it is in talks to sell its main Multi-Strategy Global fund in a deal that it said could be worth $1 billion, according to a spokesman.
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HONG KONG (CBS.MW) -- London-based financial services group HHG surged Friday after agreeing to sell its life insurance and pensions business to private equity investors for 1.025 billion pounds ($1.96 billion) in cash.
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Diageo is looking to sell part of its stake in General Mills Inc. The drinks giant announced yesterday (4 October) that it plans to sell around 33.
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GLG Partners LP, Europe's third-largest hedge fund manager, will go public in the United States through a $3.4 billion combination with Freedom Acquisition Holdings Inc.
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Goldman Sachs  is selling its 30.48 percent stake in South Korean cable TV operator C&M, valued at $970 million, a newspaper said on Monday, in the latest sale of Korean assets by foreign investment firms.
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Cinergy Corp. of Cincinnati, Ohio, said Friday it plans to sell 6.1 million shares of common stock. The sale will be made under Cinergy&#39;s effective shelf registration statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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LONDON, October 5  - Diageo Plc (GUI.FSE) has raised $2.26 billion (â¬1.84 billion) from the sale of more than half of its stake in the US-based cereal maker, General Mills Inc.
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Diageo Plc, the world&#39;s biggest liquor company, raised $2.26 billion by selling 49.9 million shares of General Mills Inc., the No.