Buyout firm KKR files for $1.25 bln IPO
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KKR & Co. LP , the prominent U.S. buyout firm that pioneered the leveraged buyout industry, filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $1.25 billion in an initial public offering.
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Albert L. Lord will receive $224.9 million for his stock options as part of the companyâs $25 billion takeover.
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Sydney - Global resources giant BHP Billiton on Tuesday announced a share buy-back of A$1 billion to A$1.5 billion (R4.65 billion to R6.
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Temasek Holdings , the Singapore government-owned investment agency, has approached Nasdaq  to buy its 30 percent stake, worth 800 million pounds ($1.6 billion), in the London Stock Exchange , a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Hong Kongâs Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (Hong Kong: 0013 - message board) could raise up to $1.5 billion from an IPO of mobile and fixed-line assets in India, Hong Kong, Israel, and other markets before the end
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Britain's WPP Group Plc has offered to  pay more than $1.25 billion for advertising firm Gray Global  Group, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing an  unidentified person familiar with the matter.
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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia&#39;s budget carrier AirAsia is expected to make a solid debut on the stock exchange Monday, with gains to be made from its retail initial public offer (IPO) price of 1.16 ringgit (0.31 dollars) a share, fund managers and analysts said
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The price of success is $25 million US, according to a filing Friday by the corporate rescue firm of Enron Corp.&#39;s interim chief executive.
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Satellite operator PanAmSat Holding Corp. filed for a $1.12 billion initial public offering on Monday, continuing the yearlong trend of private equity firms taking their portfolio companies public.
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is  considering making a concession to the banks financing its $26  billion leveraged buyout of payment processor First Data Corp.  , according to a source familiar with the situation.
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Nasdaq  launched its 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange  on Tuesday and will need just over a fifth of LSE shareholders to accept for it to take control of the bourse.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc NDAQ.O is   considering making a hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange   LSE.L, in which it has amassed a stake of over 25 percent,   weekly UK newspaper The Observer said on Sunday, without citing   any sources.
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KKR & Co. LP , the prominent U.S. buyout firm that helped to create the leveraged buyout industry, filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $1.25 billion in an initial public offering of common units.
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The Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Group, a British nonlife insurer, offered 6.4 billion kroner ($1.2 billion) to buy the stock it does not already own in Codan, a nonlife insurer in Denmark. Royal and Sun bid 605 kroner apiece for the shares, a premium of 15 percent over the closing price Wednesday of 525 kroner. Royal and Sun completed the sale of operations in the United States in March to focus on British and Scandinavian businesses and on emerging markets.
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Seven banks try to entice investors to buy $24 billion in loans and bonds to pay for the sale of the First Data Corporation to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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US buyout fund Carlyle Group will pay $400m ($206m) for a 25% stake in insurance company China Pacific Life,  in the country's biggest  private equity deal yet.
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TOKYO/LONDON  - KKR Financial Holdings , the listed affiliate of private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co , has delayed repayment of debt backed by mortgage securities for the second time and begun a new round of talks with creditors.