Private equity dominates the news today, thanks to the professional history of one highly prominent former PE manager: Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
The rise of private equity should be good news for corporate Europe.
In the tech sector, Yahoo continued to rally on news that private equity investors were meeting the board.
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Once a public company, NDS previously was taken private by the private equity shop Permira and by News Corp.
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More recently there's news of private equity firms hiring lawyers as in-house counsel to advise the firms on their own legal troubles.
The company and its chief executive, Carol Bartz, are grappling with issues including flat revenue, executive departures and news that private-equity firms have been exploring deal possibilities that include merging Yahoo with AOL Inc.
Private equity is very much in the news today owing to the great wealth achieved by its successes, not to mention the fact that presidential candidate Mitt Romney earned a fortune while heading up one of the leading lights of private equity, Bain Capital.
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But as the third-quarter returns come in, it appears that private equity managers are not reporting very bad news to investors.
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Better still, banks wanting to sell their fund-management arms can lend private-equity firms the money to buy them. (Barclays originally arranged such a deal for a sale of iShares, although that has been abandoned in favour of selling the lion's share of BGI.) That is good news for the private-equity firms, which are finding it hard to get debt finance elsewhere.
The takeover group also includes Providence Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners and Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) Global Private Equity.
Analysts have also mentioned handset maker Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) and private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners as possible acquirers.
The good news is that, as the private-equity industry becomes better known, more small companies, including family-owned firms, turn to it for capital and advice.
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This is the third stock within the Forbes Investor, the investment newsletter I edit, which has benefited from news related to increased speculation of possible private equity deals.
Shares in the company, which operates car dealerships, surged late in the month on news that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and private equity investor Edward Lampert had increased their positions in AutoNation.
Last year, Yahoo shares surged 12 percent on the news that another big media company was exploring a private equity-backed takeover bid.
The Senate probably won't raise taxes for managers of private equity firms and hedge funds anytime soon, and that's great news for the venture capital industry.
Back in January, shares of Charles River Laboratories (CRL), another Forbes Investor recommendation, jumped 17.3% after similar rumors that it was pursuing a sale to private equity firms was reported by dealReporter, a provider of relevant market moving news.
Analysts at Panmure Gordon Co. said it was plausible that Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT - news - people ) might team up with a private equity firm to buy Cadbury and divide the assets between them, with Kraft getting the confectionary business and the private equity fund getting the company's stable and profitable beverage unit.
At the time, the only news we could sniff out was an old story about a private equity bid circulating late last year.
As part of leveraged buyout by private equity groups, Dallas-based TXU (nyse: TXU - news - people ) recently scrapped its plans to build 11 coal-fired plants, opting instead for three coal plants that include emissions-reducing technologies.
Analysts have been expecting a takeover of Alltel for several months, and while a strategic buyer like Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) may well have been able to achieve more cost savings than private equity buyers, rival suitors may have been put off by the fact that months of bid speculation had lifted Alltel's share price well out of reach.
Over the last few months, financial news networks have focused their attention on the increasing number of IPOs being brought to market by private equity investors.
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