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Informa Confirms Tentative Bid From 3 PE Players; Values Company At $6.8 Billion - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Jul 2008 06:55 PM PST

Informa, the UK-based B2B giant which recently broke merger talked with United Business Media (LSE: UBM), has confirmed that it received a tentative big approach from a private equity consortium…

Informa Gets $3.53 Billion Bid Interest From Providence, Carlyle - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 09:23 AM PST

Informa, the UK-based B2B giant which just broke off its talks with UBM for a merger, now has another possible group of buyers: private equity groups Providence Equity Partners and…

Industry Moves: Pearlstine Leaves Carlyle, Returns To News As Bloomberg’s Chief Content Officer - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 12 May 2008 07:49 AM PST

Norman Pearlstine is joining Bloomberg L.P. in the new position of chief content officer, partnering with Matthew Winkler, founder and editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. Pearlstine leaves The Carlyle Group, where…

IAC Buying Major Chunk In HealthCentral; Carlyle, Sequoia & Polaris Also Investing; Total $50M - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 24 Jan 2008 06:32 PM PST

IAC (NSDQ: IACI), in the process of splitting up into five companies, is making a major bet in the online health information sector, a new-ish area for the company: it…

@ Media & Money: Keynote: Norm Pearlstine, The Carlyle Group; No Reason To Sell Time Inc. - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 Nov 2007 02:15 PM PST

During the first private equity discussion of the day, panelists were patting themselves on the back, talking up the transformative powers of PE firms, while predicting a quick turnaround in…

@ Media & Money: Is Going Private A Panacea?; More To PE Than Cheap Credit - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 Nov 2007 09:34 AM PST

Contrary to popular belief, there’s more to private equity than leverage and cost cutting… at least that’s what the panelists on the private equity panel at the Media and Money…