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October 23, 2012 |

Private equity firm to buy Ancestry.com for $1.6B

Genealogy website Ancestry.com has agreed to be acquired by a group led by European private equity firm Permira Funds in a cash deal valued at about $1.6 billion.
2 minute read
June 23, 2010 |

Freshfields, Arnold & Porter Advise on BASF's $3.8 Billion Cognis Buy

The world's largest chemical company relied mostly on in-house counsel in its acquisition of a German producer of food and cosmetics ingredients.
2 minute read
December 06, 2012 |

Private equity flips rise as KKR to Carlyle see fundraising slog

Buyout shops struggling with slumping demand for initial public offerings are instead selling their portfolio companies to rivals at a pace not seen since 2006. The trend reflects rough times for the industry — and risks upsetting their investors.
6 minute read
May 01, 2012 |

Big Deals

Cisco/NDS; Pentali/Tyco Flow Control; Zayo/AboveNet
7 minute read
February 01, 2012 |

Deals in Brief

Private equity firms had an active if challenging year in 2011.
3 minute read
June 28, 2012 |

Skadden Advising News Corp. on Plan to Split in Two

Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate has turned to its longtime legal advisers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom for outside counsel on a restructuring plan that would produce two publicly traded companies.
5 minute read
November 19, 2012 |

Fenwick, Wilson Sonsini Advising on Cisco's $1.2 Billion Cloud Management Deal

Cisco Systems is paying $1.2 billion to acquire San Francisco–based Meraki, Inc., which makes cloud-based software that lets businesses manage network infrastructure.
2 minute read
January 05, 2009 |

Suit centers on pricing of companies

Lawyers for the private equity industry are watching a consolidated antitrust class action alleging that 17 private equity companies and investment banks conspired to keep the price of target companies artificially low during a five-year period. The case, which consolidates two separate lawsuits, recently survived a motion to dismiss in the District of Massachusetts, exposing to trial companies such as investment banks JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and bank holding company Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and their subsidiaries.
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