Bain Capital offers $3.5 bln for S.Africa's Edcon
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Bain Capital LLC has made a 25 billion rand ($3.48 billion) buyout offer for South Africa's largest fashion retailer Edgars Consolidated Stores (Edcon)  in the country's biggest private equity deal yet.
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Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is near an agreement to sell its Canadian telephone directory business to private equity firm Bain Capital, the New York Post said on Wednesday.
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A $5 million infusion of venture capital will help Laszlo Systems work on tools to build Web pages.
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Deutsche Boerse is ready to make a revised offer for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) that would value it at 1.5 billion pounds (2.12 billion euros, 2.88 billion dollars), the Observer newspaper reported.
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The World Bank promises to donate a record $3.5bn to the world's poorest countries as it cuts the charges on its loans.
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London-listed Central African Mining & Exploration  launched an offer for Katanga Mining Ltd  on Wednesday, which it said valued the Canadian company at C$1.52 billion (US$1.44 billion).
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âThere is no financing condition to the obligations of Bain Capital to consummate the transaction.â The above quote is from the press release issued Monday by Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a provider of employee-sponsored child care and other services, announcing the agreement of the company to be acquired by Bain Capital in a transaction valued [...].
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The nation's fourth-largest bank plans to shore up $3.5 billion
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Wilbur Ross, whose buyout firm created International Steel less than two years ago, is selling the company to Lakshmi N. Mittal, the billionaire steel tycoon, for $4.5 billion.
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- The University of Connecticut has received $3.5 million from insurance giant Aetna and its chief executive to fund university health programs, the school announced Tuesday.
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French media and telecommunications group Vivendi said Friday it had arranged a 3.5-billion-euro (5.15-billion-dollar) credit line to fund US and French acquisitions.
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London Stock Exchange Plc, Europe&#39;s third-largest exchange by market value, said it received a 1.35 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) takeover offer from Deutsche Boerse AG, the second attempt
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At key moments during his rise in politics, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has returned to the same reliable source for money, advice and corporate muscle: Bain Capital, the investment company he founded in the 1980s.
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A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland  unveiled a bid for ABN AMRO  on Tueday valued at 38.40 euros per share, worth a total 71.1 billion euros ($95.6 billion).
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Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb raised $3.5 million the past three months, the first substantial cash infusion into his campaign but less than half that raised by Republican incumbent Sen. George Allen.
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U.S. real estate investment firm  Starwood Capital is in talks with advisers to launch a bid  worth around 3 billion pounds ($5.5 billion) for UK leisure  group Whitbread Plc , the Financial Mail on Sunday  reported.
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British waste-collection firm Biffa  has received a counter-approach worth around 1.5 billion pounds ($3 billion) from a fund backed by General Electric , said sources familiar with the matter.