Carlyle group bids $5.5 bln for Taiwan's ASE
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A private equity consortium led  by The Carlyle Group plans a $5.5 billion bid for the world's  top chip packaging firm, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering  Inc. (ASE), Taiwan-based ASE said on Friday.
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Booz Allen Hamilton, the consulting firm, is in talks to sell its government contracting arm to the Carlyle Group and others for about $2 billion, people briefed on discussions said.
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Merrill Lynch may get as much as $5 billion from Singapore state-owned investment agency Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., a newspaper reported.
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Carlyle Capital Corporation Ltd.  began trade on Amsterdam's stock exchange at $20 per share on Wednesday, after a trimmed initial public offering that raised $303.5 million for the affiliate of Carlyle Group
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General Motors Corp. agreed to sell its Allison Transmission unit to buyout firms Carlyle Group and Onex Corp. for $5.6 billion as the largest US automaker raises cash to pay for job cuts, plant closings, and new models.
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Dow Jones & Co Inc.  said on  Tuesday that its board was prepared to recommend that its  shareholders accept a $5 billion buyout offer from Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N).
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General Motors Corp. said on Thursday it will sell its Allison Transmission unit for $5.6 billion to private equity firms Carlyle Group and Onex Corp. , sending the automaker's shares to their highest level in 2-1/2 years.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Bombardier Transportation has been selected by the Chinese government to negotiate a rail equipment contract worth a reported &#36;4.5 billion Cdn.
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AIG&#39;s  private banking unit is  aiming to take 10 percent of Taiwan&#39;s wealth management market  within five years, targeting residents who have made big money  in China, a top executive said on Tuesday.
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HSBC (0005.HK) will receive  T$47.5 billion ($1.5 billion) in Taiwan government funds and  make a major cash infusion to rescue the failed Chinese Bank,  in the latest Taiwan acquisition by a major foreign bank.
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Private equity firm The Carlyle Group  is mulling a bid for the generics business of Germany's Merck  KGaA , a unit worth at least 4 billion euros ($5.3  billion), a source close to the process said.
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The firm is poised to buy a 5% share in the popular social networking website, according to reports.
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AMSTERDAM -- Steel tycoon Lakshmi N. Mittal yesterday said he would pay $4.5 billion in cash and stock for US steelmaker International Steel Group Inc., which had been cobbled together by onetime investment banker Wilbur L. Ross Jr. from mills whose parents landed in bankruptcy court.
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China Power International Development Ltd. raised HK$2.5 billion ($320.6 million) in an initial public offering, bankers said, after pricing its shares at a discount to rivals and selling a stake to Singapore&#39;s investment company.
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Members of the Bancroft family,  which controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , met in Boston on  Monday to consider a $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News  Corp (NWSa.N)  for the publisher of The Wall Street  Journal.
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A group led by U.S. investment firm Aetos Capital LLC has outbid Morgan Stanley  and others by offering 300 billion yen ($2.7 billion) for a roughly 30 percent stake in Japanese property developer Daito Trust Construction Co , a financial source said on Friday.
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Station Casinos Inc.  said on  Monday it agreed to a $5.4 billion management-led buyout, after  the investor group buying the company raised its offer by about  10 percent.