Silver Lake Partners, L.P., and Warburg Pincus LLC teamed up to buy all of Interactive Data Corporation for $3.4 billion in a deal announced May 4. Pearson plc owns 61 percent of IDC, a provider of financial market data, and the rest of IDC is publicly traded. The parties hope to close the deal this fall pending regulatory approvals.

For acquiror Silver Lake Partners, L.P. (Menlo Park, California)