Activist investors are starting to earn the respect of U. S. institutional investors like mutual fund and state-run pension fund.
North America
Kaplan Ventures Leads Series B Financing for Treehouse
Treehouse grows with Series B financing from Kaplan Ventures. The Series B Preferred financing round of Treehouse Island, the online coding education platform, raised a sum of US $7 Million.
ParElastic Obtains Additional Series A Funding of $5.7M
ParElastic raises an additional US$5.7 million in additional funding. ParElastic Corporation, the purveyors of cloud data management business, announced today that they were able to obtain an additional $5.
Nomos Bank of Russia To Go on Roadshow
Nomos Bank would offer a dollar denominated Eurobond through a roadshow. The Russian financial institution Nomos Bank is one of the few banks in Russia listed in the country's stock exchange.
Shares of First Solar Jump to 45 Percent
First Solar's shares jumped 45 percent with its announcement that it will acquire a new solar technology and that revenue in the next three years will be above Wall Street estimates.
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An activist shareholder has questioned Dell Inc.’s evaluation of a $24.4 billion leveraged buyout deal with buyout firm Silver Lake.
Two global insurers are in the running to purchase HSBC Plc's life insurance unit in India. Manulife Financial Corp of Canada and its Indian afflilate Standard Life Plc are among the bidders for the HSBC Plc's Indian life insurance unit.
Ackman's handpicked executive has been replaced by the board of JC Penney. William Ackman has bet the ranch that he would be able to overhaul the financial condition of retail giant JC Penney.
Colonie Mall, the second largest mall in Albany NY was recently acquired by a consortium led by KKR.
As an alternative to the Sprint Nextel offer, Aurelius Capital Management has offered US$80 million in financing to Clearwire.
Thermo Fisher, the largest scientific equipment and laboratory instruments manufacturer has sent a binding offer for Life Technologies, the genetics sequence market leader.
Fiat claims ability to buy out other shareholders for Chrysler. The Italian carmaker who manages Chrysler Group LLC, Fiat SpA, said that their resources are already sufficient to be able to purchase the remaining shares from an employee group and there is no need to liquidate new shares to be able to finance the deal.
Southeastern Asset Management calls the evaluation of the Silver Lake-Dell leveraged buyout offer as "flawed".
CORWIL acquired by Tonka Bay Equity partners for an undisclosed amount. Tonka Bay Equity Partners announced their acquisition of CORWIL Technology Corporation.
