Carlyle to buy Manor Care for $4.9 billion
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Manor Care Inc. , the largest U.S. owner of nursing homes, on Monday said it agreed to be acquired by Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion, the latest health-care provider taken off the public market by a private equity buyer.
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Britain's Imperial Tobacco  said on Thursday it had agreed to buy Commonwealth Brands, the fourth-biggest cigarette maker in the United States, for 974 million pounds ($1.9 billion) in cash.
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Carlyle Group, the District-based private-equity giant, will lend another $100 million to shore up a struggling European affiliate that has been battered by recent credit market turmoil.
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Insurer Standard Life has agreed to buy  rival Resolution for 4.9 billion pounds ($10.1 billion),  topping a competing offer and breaking up Resolution's planned  merger with Friends Provident.
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Manor Care Inc. , the largest U.S. operator of homes for the elderly, said on Monday it agreed to be acquired by Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion.
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Private equity group Carlyle is poised to launch an $8 billion bid for Britain's Virgin Media , the cable company whose largest shareholder is Richard Branson, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said, citing City sources.
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Bethesda-based Coventry Health Care Inc. is buying managed health care company First Health Group Corp. for $1.8 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would create a national health benefits company capable of providing health insurance and administrative services to a broad array of clients.
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Biomet, a major manufacturer of artificial hips and knees, said today that it had agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium for $10.9 billion.
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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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Triad Hospitals Inc. , under pressure from its biggest stockholder to raise the share price, agreed to be acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors and a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. unit for $4.7 billion.
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British investment fund manager Henderson has announced that it has agreed to buy construction company John Laing for 886.9 million pounds.
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Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP, a London-based buyout firm, agreed to buy UK vacation and insurance company Saga Ltd. for 1.35 billion pounds ($2.
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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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PQ Corp., the specialty chemicals business, said on Friday it was being sold to private equity buyout firm Carlyle Group  for $1.5 billion.
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Manor Care Inc  and private  equity firm Carlyle Group  will contest a temporary  halt on their $4.9 billion merger imposed by a Michigan court,  Manor Care said on Thursday.
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Bank of America Corp. said Friday it has agreed to buy Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock, a deal that both rescues the country's largest mortgage lender and expands the financial services empire of the nation's largest consumer bank
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Two private equity groups -- The Carlyle   Group CYL.UL and Apax Partners -- said on Sunday they have   signed an agreement to sell healthcare marketing services firm   MediMedia USA Inc. to Vestar Capital Partners.