Carlyle closes Manor Care buyout
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Private equity firm Carlyle Group  has closed its $4.9 billion acquisition of U.S. nursing home operator Manor Care Inc , Manor Care said on Friday, after a temporary order against the deal was lifted in Michigan.
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The $8 billion buyout of audio-equipment maker Harman International Industries collapsed yesterday, the first major private-equity deal to unravel since the current credit turmoil began and a sobering sign for other big takeovers in the works.
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Resolution Life, the closed life assurance consolidator led by Clive Cowdery, completed its second acquisition yesterday with the Â£205m purchase of Swiss Life&#39;s closed UK business.
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Triad Hospitals, under pressure from its biggest stockholder to raise its share price, agreed yesterday to be acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors and a Goldman Sachs unit for $4.7 billion.
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French designer Christian Lacroix closed a key chapter in his 18-year career on Tuesday as luxury group LVMH said it had sold the loss-making label to a privately held U.S. investment company.
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Google Inc. said on Wednesday that the  auction has closed for its initial public offering.
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Guidant Corp.&#39;s 10-year run as one of Indiana&#39;s most successful public companies will end with a $25 billion sale to health products giant Johnson &amp; Johnson.
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The Carlyle Group, the District's private-equity giant, announced today that it is selling a 7.5 percent share of its general partnership to an investment group owned by the government of Abu Dhabi.
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A consortium led by British insurer Prudential PLC has dropped its bid for a major South Korean state asset managing company.
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The Carlyle Group, under siege for weeks by a labor union critical of its $6.3 billion purchase of Manor Care nursing homes, has taken the rare step of putting in writing its promise to provide adequate staffing and resources to the chain.
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The Carlyle Group isn't accustomed to failure. Over the past 15 years, it has built itself into one of the world's biggest and most successful private-equity funds by seeing value where others didn't. For most of that time, its risks have been carefully calculated, its timing nearly impeccable.
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Harry Macklowe has withdrawn from a battle that had threatened to derail the planned merger of SL Green Realty and the Reckson Associates Realty Corporation.
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ElkCorp said that it planned to accept a bid for the company from Building Materials Corporation of America and terminate a planned sale to the private equity firm Carlyle Group.
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The fabled Filene's brand will come to an end tomorrow as Macy's completes its $17 billion takeover of regional chains across the country to create a shopping empire of more than 800 stores.
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The Archdiocese of Boston's tentative deal to hand over its troubled Caritas Christi Health Care system to Ascension Health of St. Louis collapsed yesterday after five months of research by Ascension showed the hospital chain was in worse financial shape than it expected, according to officials at competing hospitals and others familiar with the talks.
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The company said it will close its business in Britain that issues home loans and significantly scale back its mortgage business in the United States.
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REIT withdraws offer for Equity Office, bowing out in favor of Blackstone.