Private Equity

(Adds company background) By Olivia Oran and Greg Roumeliotis April 24 (Reuters) - Emergency Medical Services Corp, the largest U.S. provider of ambulance services, has selected underwriters for a $750 million initial public offering, two people...

BRUSSELS, April 23 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process: APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS -- Investment bank Goldman Sachs and private equity firm TPG Lundy to buy British...

FRANKFURT, April 23 (Reuters) - Five private equity groups are set to bid for Springer Science+Business Media, owned by private equity firm EQT and sovereign wealth fund GIC, several people close to the process told Reuters. While EQT and GIC are...

April 22 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group said on Monday it struck a deal to buy one of Credit Suisse's private equity businesses with $9 billion in assets under management. The companies did not disclose the purchase price for the Swiss bank's Strategic...

By Olivia Oran NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - Investors looking to take advantage of the recovering U.S. housing market have flocked to large public offerings from industrial companies despite the sector's high debt load and modest growth. Propelled...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors looking to take advantage of the recovering U.S. housing market have flocked to large public offerings from industrial companies despite the sector's high debt load and modest growth. Propelled by a stock market rebound...

Dallas-based Orix Private Equity announced Wednesday it has invested an undisclosed amount in Baltimore-based R2integrated, which the digital marketing and technology company hopes to use to expand rapidly in the next few years. Founded in 2005, R2i...

Aside from the business suit he was wearing, which he joked was rented for the occasion, Sam Zell was never more himself than when he appeared at a New York lender conference in April 2007 to hawk his $8.2 billion buyout of Tribune Co. Slinging one-...

Paging Mr. Fezziwig. One might get the notion that Charles Dickens' good-hearted fictional employer was back in business after the announcement this week by a private equity firm, Cerberus Capital Management, that it intends to sell Freedom Group Inc.,...

Legg Mason Inc.'s stock retreated Friday, a day after shares shot up on a report that the company's board rejected — at least for now — a proposal by senior managers at its affiliates and private equity investors to take the company private....

Roberto Herencia occasionally rides to work on one of the four Harley-Davidson motorcycles he keeps in his "man cave," a Glenview storage facility equipped with a red couch, a TV and a 6-foot lucha libre mask, an icon of Mexican wrestling.    When headed...

The foreclosed home on Kenmore Street in Aurora was an outdated, unkempt eyesore until crews arrived this fall, performing thousands of dollars of work to make it attractive and modern, inside and out. But it wasn't until workers walked across the...