American investment firm Hellman & Friedman has kicked off a bidding war for Australia's Fairfax Media by making a multi-billion-dollar offer to rival private equity company TPG Capital's proposal,...
A consortium led by private equity giant TPG Capital upped its offer for troubled Fairfax Media Monday and now wants to buy out the entire firm. Last week TPG and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan...
Tech billionaire Scott Farquhar has bought a Sydney waterfront mansion for an Australian record Aus$75 million (US$56 million), a report said Monday, after the owners resisted selling the 1863-built...
Toronto-based insurance group Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd (FFH. TO) has agreed to buy Swiss insurer Allied World Assurance Company Holdings AG (AWH.N) for $4.9 billion in cash and stock, the...
