Private equity firm buys CDW for $7.3 billion
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The computer retailer becomes the latest company to be swallowed up by a private equity firm.
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CDW Corp. , a U.S. provider of technology products and services, said on Tuesday it agreed to be bought by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC for about $7.3 billion.
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Platinum Equity will acquire Covad Communications for about $304 million, making the communications services company the latest technology company to sell to a private equity firm.
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Private equity firm Fortress Investment Group LLC agreed to buy Stelmar Shipping Ltd. for $677 million only a few months after the oil tanker operator fended off a hostile bid from its rival OMI Corp.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit said on Thursday it would buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion (US$3.9 billion), the latest in a string of property takeovers by the U.S. investment bank.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Buyout firms Warburg Pincus and Providence Equity Partners are close to a deal to buy telecommunications software company Telcordia Technologies Inc. for about $1.3 billion, sources familiar with the situation said yesterday.
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The Carlyle Group, the District private-equity giant, continued its recent acquisition spree yesterday with a $2.7 billion deal for Sequa, a manufacturer of as diverse a group of products as pumps that inflate automobile airbags and After Six tuxedos.
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The luggage maker Samsonite said that it had agreed to be bought by the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in an all-cash deal of about $1.7 billion, including assumption of debt.
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Shares of CDW Corp.  rose more than 12 percent to a seven-year high on Tuesday following a report that the computer technology retailer may be a takeover target of private equity firms.
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A US-based private equity firm buys a 50% stake in Seven Network - one of Australia's largest media companies.
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Triad Hospitals Inc.  agreed to accept a $4.7 billion takeover offer from two private equity buyers, including the investment unit of Goldman Sachs, amid pressure from a hedge fund to boost its stock performance.
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A Chicago developer of regional shopping malls said today it will buy Maryland's The Rouse Co. for about $7.2 billion.
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Australiaâs largest airline agreed to an $8.7 billion buyout offer from a consortium led by Macquarie Bank and the Texas Pacific Group.
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Boeing Co  said on Monday it would buy up to $7 billion of its own stock, one of the plane-maker's largest repurchase plans on record, but kept its cash dividend unchanged.
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Acute care hospital operator Select  Medical Corp. SEM.N said on Monday it is being bought out by  a private equity group for $2.3 billion, sending shares soaring  by 24 percent.
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Morgan Stanley&#39;s  real estate unit  agreed to buy Australia&#39;s Investa Properties Ltd.  for  A$4.7 billion ($3.9 billion) on Thursday, the nation&#39;s  third-largest property trust takeover.