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U.S. private equity firms are making further inroads in Asia. Overnight, Carlyle announced it raised $1.04 billion for its fourth Asian growth capital fund — nearly double the size of its previous such fund. The fund has already made investments into companies including the high-end Chinese women’s apparel maker...

General Motors is heading back to bankruptcy court on Tuesday to seek approval to sell its choice assets to a “New GM” in a plan to reinvigorate the automaker under U.S. government ownership. Reuters reporters Emily Chasan and Caroline Humer will be filing updates from the hearing in the...

Roche’s megabucks Genentech buy is looking more like a reverse takeover — in some ways, at least. The Swiss drugmaker splashed out $47 billion to buy out its biotech partner to secure access to Genentech’s impressive new drugs. But Roche’s U.S. operations are to operate under...

General Motors (GMGMQ.PK) is talking to rival suitors to sell a stake in Opel, the Financial Times says,  primarily Brussels-based RHJ International (RHJI.BR). Magna is still in pole position. Japan’s Shinsei Bank and Aozora Bank are likely to announce plans to merge by next year, sources familiar...

FirstGroup, the Aberdeen-based transport group led by its chairman Martin Gilbert, confirmed on Monday that it made an approach for smaller, embattled National Express on June 19. But, National Express’s newly appointed chairman, John Devaney, and his chief executive, Richard Bowker, believe they can...

By Steve James Although Enterprise Products Partners CEO Michael Creel could not join a conference call with analysts to dicuss his company’s planned $3.3 billion acquisition Teppco Partners, the energy pipeline company was quick to reassure investors all was well. “He is not hiking the Appalachian...

Hostile deals – and there are a few going on – have one unintended consequence: too many press releases. Every side feels compelled to correct a rival’s spin as things heat up, which means almost every press statement has an equal and opposite reaction. In Bermuda, a three-way battle...