Private equity group drums up support for EMI takeover
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Terra Firma, the private equity group, said Friday it had secured more than a quarter of the shares in British music publisher EMI in the wake of its takeover offer agreed in May.
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LONDON, November 19  âThe share price of the global music company, EMI (EMI.ETR), appreciated nearly 10% to 228.5p on the London Stock Exchange today, after the company guided to improved full year results, despite posting ay/y decline
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EMI Group PLC, beset by profit warnings and an accounting scandal in Brazil, was thrown a potential lifeline yesterday with a possible new takeover bid by a former suitor, Warner Music Group.
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The move by the consortium of banks, which is led by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, is intended to help it prevail in a bidding war with Barclays.
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Warner Music Group said on Wednesday any  takeover offer for Britain's EMI Group Plc would probably all  be in cash, briefly boosting the London-based company's shares.
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NEW YORK/LONDON  - Warner Music Group Corp.  said on Wednesday any takeover offer it might make for Britain's EMI Group Plc  would probably be all cash.
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Former EMI Group Plc Chief Executive Jim  Fifield is interested in potentially making an offer for the  world&#39;s third biggest music company, he said on Friday.
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Merlin waves magic wand Independent labels are in a public row over whether to back Warner Music's bid for ailing British major EMI. The merger would see the 'Big Four' consolidate into a Big Three.â¦
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LONDON -- EMI Group PLC, home to the Beatles and Coldplay, agreed to a 2.4 billion pound ($4.7 billion) takeover by a private equity group on Monday, but the deal raised speculation of an all-out bidding war for the struggling music company.
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The long courtship between EMI Group PLC and Warner Music Group is on again. EMI confirmed Tuesday that it had received an approach from Warner about a possible bid.
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Boots bosses meet to decide whether to open up its books to a private equity firm which has made an approach for it.
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Prudential has surprised investors with plans for a one billion pound rights issue largely to fund expansion in the UK. Shares in Britain&#39;s second-largest listed insurer
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Media & professional: File-sharing has holed the record industry below the waterline. So why does private equity guru Guy Hands want to buy EMI?
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Shares in media group Emap  jumped on Monday on speculative interest as some investors took the view that a counter-bidder may pitch for the company's specialist publishing and conferences assets.
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Private equity firms are to come under scrutiny from MPs following union criticism of the sector.
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LONDON, Nov. 28  Â The EMI Group, the British music company, said Tuesday that it had been approached about a takeover, and a source close to the situation said that the private equity firm Permira had made the contact.
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Warner Music decides not to make a rival bid for EMI, the British music firm which is set to be bought out by a private equity group.