As talks have advanced to take Dell Inc private, analysts say the computer giant will have to take on billions of dollars more in debt - an...

Gone are the days when corporates could coax banks into financing acquisitions by showing the strength of their balance sheets.

Bankers who arranged financing for last year’s largest leveraged buyouts - TXU and First Data - are leaving their firms as the pace of take...

Except for oil executives, no group of business leaders is now more resented than the titans of finance, bankers, traders, hedge fund manag...

The worldwide slump in credit markets is likely to last for at least another year, triggering a reduction in leveraged buyouts.

Barclays' John Varley and Fred Goodwin of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, who spent six months battling for control of ABN Amro Holding.

Last June Stephen Schwarzman and Peter Peterson made an initial public offering of shares in their buyout firm, drawing about $2.6 billion ...

Domestic M&A activity faces a lot of curbs whereas it's much easier for Indian firms to acquire a foreign entity.

An iconic biscuit brand founded in the late 1890s, Nabisco became the subject of one of the bitterest and hotly contested takeover battles ...

In many ways, this deal is the equivalent of crossing the Rubicon for Indian companies who want to do leveraged buyouts (LBOs). No Indian c...

Frenetic global takeover activity this year has been driven partly by an over-reliance on debt and this could cause problems if economic gr...

The world’s biggest bondholders are determined to make an example of Henry Kravis. Pacific Investment Management and Advantus Capital Manag...

B-School students who graduated in the mid ‘80s got a taste of the country’s first leveraged buyout (or LBO) from clippings of business new...

Leveraged acquisitions will occupy centre-stage as India, Inc.’s global buyout appetite goes into overdrive.

Leveraged acquisitions will occupy centre-stage as India, Inc.’s global buyout appetite goes into overdrive.

After topping the mergers and acquisitions list in ’05 in India, Standard Chartered is looking at a whole gamut of services in India. Start...

Tata Steel is likely to follow in the footsteps of Tata Tea. India’s largest private steel company is mulling a leveraged buyout (LBO) of C...