Groups See 'Serious Setback' in Buyout
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The passage of a major U.S. tax bill containing a buyout for tobacco farmers has frustrated advocates who had hoped to link the funding to new laws regulating cigarettes.
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Business & money: Â· Buyout firms blamed for collapse of schemesÂ· Labour donor linked to Â£81m of deficits
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Investor profiles are shifting, regulations are changing and buyouts are starting to heat up.
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Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky. That view has now been turned on its head.
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Alliance Data Systems Corp , a provider of transaction, credit and marketing services, said on Monday its $6.76 billion buyout by private equity firm Blackstone Group LP  was in jeopardy.
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A pullback in commercial property lending has raised questions about whether a recent surge in real estate investment trust buyouts signaled a peak for private equity funds.
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Shareholders hoped the move would stabilize the company after a series of blows that could hurt sales and limit its strategic options.
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Business & money: Deal forced to be scrapped as the fallout from the sub-prime markets continues to spread
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Some aggrieved investors are turning to lawyers to pursue possible legal claims stemming from losses at two Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were virtually wiped out from large, illiquid bets on risky mortgages.
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The decision is a setback for the two companies and their plan to acquire ContentGuard, a digital rights management firm.
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The withdrawal of private equity  bidders from an auction for Australian retailer Coles Group  Ltd.  has underscored how the demands of increasingly  risk averse borrowers threaten some of the more debt-laden  deals.
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Harman International Industries Inc  said its private equity buyers are pulling out of their $8 billion buyout deal, a severe blow to the company whose shares fell more than 25 percent on Friday.
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Don't buy without considering threat of entry, bargaining power, and more.
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Before announcing the biggest buyout on record, the private equity buyers of utility TXU Corp. came calling on environmental groups, the latest sign of how the green lobby is increasingly shaping the agenda on Wall Street.
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Investor groups sounded alarms yesterday after it emerged that a foundation with ties to a pair of well-heeled business donors and an executive battling civil charges had funded a controversial new report seeking to slash corporate regulation.
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Investors who see company buybacks of stock as only good news may be overlooking the damage that certain share repurchases can do to companies&#39; financial health.
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Bankruptcy rumors followed by a denial put the lender's shares in flux.