Australia Babcock &amp; Brown To Pursue Listed Investment Co
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Babcock &amp; Brown Ltd. (BNB.AU) said Monday it plans to raise as much as A$1 billion for an externally managed investment company to target long-term investments.
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Australia&#39;s S&amp;P/ASX 200 Index was little changed. News Corp. advanced as investors who track the Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s 500 Index bought shares ahead of the stock&#39;s addition to the US benchmark next month.
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Carlyle Group, the US private equity fund, is in talks with the Hanjin Group over the purchase of some of the South Korean conglomerate&#39;s transport and logistics
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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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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australia&#39;s Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group (MCG.AU), which is bidding in a consortium for NTL Inc.
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BHP Billiton Ltd. , the  world&#39;s largest mining group, is considering a bid to rival a  $28.7 billion offer for aluminum producer Alcan Inc. ,  and has hired investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. ,  sources familiar with the matter said.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--As investors speculate about the future landscape of the Australian media industry, newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings Ltd.
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U.S. group Applied Materials  , Switzerland's Unaxis  and investor Texas  Pacific Group are interested in parts of BOC Edwards, a unit of  British industrial gases firm BOC , a newspaper reported  on Monday.
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SYDNEY - Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp is to consider moves to strengthen its corporate governance, in the face of growing shareholder concern about its relocation to the United States.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australian engineering company Worley Group Ltd. (WOR.AU) has placed shares with institutional investors at A$4.
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British Airways (BA) said it would sell its 1.1 billion dollar (770 million US) stake in Australia's Qantas in a move seen as likely to fuel a major realignment of airline alliances.
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BHP Billiton&#39;s Australian investors will collect $1.5 billion from a buyback announced by the global miner yesterday. But the move will leave foreigners with a stronger presence on the BHP share register because they can&#39;t participate.
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Australia's Macquarie Bank  and private equity fund MBK Partners are among bidders for Goldman Sachs' stake in South Korea's No. 2 TV cable operator, a source with knowledge of the deal said on Monday.
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The folks at the firm are poised for a mega cash out.
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Relatively well-off people in Manhattan or San Francisco or Seattle tend to pay their rents. Financial markets, especially the asset-backed ones that are so key to leveraged buy-outs, like this kind of stability. So it is fairly surprising that real estate investment trusts focusing on apartments have not been the subject of private equity interest - until now at least. On Tuesday, Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) offered an enterprise value of $22bn for Archstone (NYSE:ASN)-Smith, known for its high-quality portfolio in sought-after cities such as New York.
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Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is planning an initial public offering, media reports said on Thursday.
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The world's largest mining group, BHP Billington Ltd.,  is considering a rival bid for aluminum producer Alcan Inc.  and has hired an investment bank, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.