TXU agrees to KKR, Texas Pacific buyout: report
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Texas power company TXU Corp.  has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $32 billion in the largest leverage buyout in history, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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Texas power company TXU Corp. (TXU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday raised its dividend by 350 percent, boosted its earnings forecast and increased its share buyback program
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Henry Kravis, whose 1989 takeover of RJR Nabisco Inc. rewrote the rules of leveraged buyouts, set a record yesterday with his firm's $45 billion agreement to buy Dallas-based power producer TXU Corp.
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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star said on Thursday it was ending an agreement to sell Korea Exchange Bank  to Kookmin Bank  in a $7.3 billion deal, which has been subject to a long-running prosecutor probe.
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DALLAS (CBS.MW) - Shares of TXU surged as much as 15 percent Monday after announcing it more than tripled its dividend payout from the prior quarter, increased its 2004 and 2005 earnings forecasts, and set a 50 million stock repurchase program.
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PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday agreed to a sweetened $10.3 billion buyout by rival software maker Oracle Corp.
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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star said on  Thursday it was ending an agreement to sell Korea Exchange Bank  (004940.KS) to Kookmin Bank (060000.KS) in a $7.3 billion deal,  which has been subject to a long-running prosecutor probe.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Qantas Airways said Thursday it had accepted an $8.64 billion takeover offer from a private equity consortium including Australia's Macquarie Bank and the Texas Pacific Group _ one of the biggest corporate buyouts in Australian history.
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Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.   reached a deal on Wednesday to be sold to a group led  by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  and private equity firm Texas  Pacific Group, according to a source familiar with the deal.
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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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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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HOUSTON/NEW YORK  - Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis and Co on Tuesday recommended TXU Corp.  shareholders vote in favor of a $32 billion buyout of the Texas power company.
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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star is close to terminating its $7.3 billion deal to sell Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) to Kookmin Bank  because of a prosecutors' investigation, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.  reached a deal on Wednesday to be sold to a group led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, according to a source familiar with the deal.
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc.   said on Tuesday it agreed to be bought by private equity firms  Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group  for $17.1  billion in cash.
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Texas power producer TXU Corp. TXU.N  posted a quarterly loss, weighed down by restructuring charges  on Wednesday, but forecast growth in 2005 and 2006, propelling  its share price to an all-time high.
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The travel reservation company agreed Monday night to be sold to Silver Lake Partners and the Texas Pacific Group.