United States

With private equity funds being forced to endure a tough environment for fundraising in the aftermath of the real estate downturn, investors are becoming increasingly careful as to... 2012-02-08

Primerica is being held by Citigroup Holding, which is a unit where the bank has created to keep non-core assets that are to be sold.

The wave of technology start-up companies going public continues. After

CFW View: There has been strong appetite from private equity to acquire clinical and contract research organisations (CROs) throughout 2011. The spate of acquisitions comes at a time... 2011-12-02

The possibility of significant restructuring at US snack and drink giant PepsiCo has increased following the revelation that activist investor Nelson Peltz has built a US$150mn stake... 2011-11-17

The US high yield bond market is back, and with a bang. Thanks to the eurozone summit agreement, coupled with an improvement in US GDP growth figures (Q311 saw US GDP come in at 2.5%... 2011-11-02

Technology giant, Oracle is buying again. This week it announced that it has made an offer for US based cloud computing company, RightNow

With trouble at home, a growing number of US corporates are heading overseas in order to tap equity investors and complete their IPOs. Indeed with market volatility in the US forcing... 2011-10-18

There is hope for the US IPO market, and it comes in the form of financial sponsors.

Shortly after international food giants Kraft and Sara Lee announced they are to split their operations in an attempt to delineate the underlying businesses and unlock shareholder value,... 2011-09-23