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NEWSMAKER-UPDATE 2-GM's outsider CEO opens door to new outsider

Aug 13, 2010

* Akerson faces challenge of shaking up GM culture (Adds reference to potential tension with Obama administration goals)

FEATURE-No longer all in the family: Indian businesses step out

Aug 13, 2010

MUMBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - When it comes to Indian businesses, The Tata Group is the oldest and best-known: the conglomerate owns the luxury Jaguar car brand, it's made the world's cheapest car, and its chairman, 72-year-old Ratan Tata, oversees an empire that ranges from salt to software.

UPDATE 2-Telstra to sell China's SouFun stake to PE firms

Aug 13, 2010

SYDNEY, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Australia's Telstra Corp Ltd has agreed to offload its stake in SouFun, China's second-largest online real estate website, to two private equity firms and existing shareholders for around $400 million ahead of a float.

Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest

Aug 13, 2010

BANGALORE, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media on Friday:

Danish telecom TDC keeps outlook after Q2 rise

Aug 13, 2010

COPENHAGEN, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Danish telecom operator TDC , tipped as a candidate for a big stock offering, announced higher first-half profits on Friday, helped by subscriber growth and currency movements.

RPT-NEWSMAKER-UPDATE 1-GM's CEO opens door to new outsider

Aug 13, 2010

* Whitacre, GM outsider, opens door to new outsider CEO

Energy Future Holdings says $4.5 bln debt tendered

Aug 13, 2010

NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Energy Future Holdings on Friday said debt holders have tendered $4.47 billion of notes, or 99.58 percent of the amount outstanding in its latest debt exchange offer.

UPDATE 1-Blackstone to buy Dynegy, sells plants to NRG

Aug 13, 2010

NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group said on Friday it will buy power producer Dynegy Inc for $543 million in cash and sell four of its power plants to NRG Energy in the latest shake-up in the hard-hit power industry.

UPDATE 1-Energy Future Holdings says $4.5 bln debt tendered

Aug 13, 2010

NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Energy Future Holdings on Friday said debt holders have tendered $4.47 billion of notes, or 99.58 percent of the amount outstanding in its latest debt exchange offer.

Blackstone advises teetering TerreStar - sources

Aug 13, 2010

* TerreStar has said it may have to file for bankruptcy

DEALTALK-Blackstone's Dynegy scoop unlikely copied

Aug 13, 2010

NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP's deal to buy Dynegy Inc is an unusually structured buyout that would give it control of the power company without having to refinance or invest much cash and similar takeovers of independent power companies are unlikely to follow.

UPDATE 1-Barnes & Noble, Burkle in talks to end fight-NYT

Aug 12, 2010

NEW YORK, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc is in talks with Ronald Burkle's investment firm to end the billionaire's lawsuit and avoid a potential fight over the company's board, The New York Times said on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest

Aug 12, 2010

BANGALORE, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media on Thursday:

Deutsche Bank's Geoghegan quits City for tech firm

Aug 12, 2010

* Spent just over a year with Deutsche, 14 years at Goldman

Lehman: Och-Ziff resists subpoena bid on collapse

Aug 12, 2010

NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers says hedge fund company Och-Ziff Capital Management Group is stonewalling its efforts to subpoena information related to Lehman's collapse and that a bankruptcy court should force it to respond.

Mexico pensions bet $460 mln on property, debt

Aug 12, 2010

MEXICO CITY, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Mexican private pensions have invested roughly $460 million in real estate and debt funds this month, fund managers said, as the risk-averse pensions reach for higher returns.

BUYOUTS-New firms replenish buyout market

Aug 12, 2010

August 12 - The buyout market is widely expected to endure a shakeout in coming years, but behind the scenes a number of new players have emerged.

UPDATE 1-Ashland looking to sell distribution business-sources

Aug 12, 2010

* Unit worth more than $500 million-source (Adds background, no comment from BofA, byline)

RLPC-UPDATE 1-CVC amends Univar's loan before stake sale

Aug 12, 2010

* IPO remains an option after June SEC filing (Updates to add background, financing detail)

NEWSMAKER-GM's outsider CEO opens door to new outsider

Aug 12, 2010

DETROIT, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Ed Whitacre likes people who know their limits as well as he learned his own in Detroit.

TPG eyeing restructure for Australia's Alinta - newspaper

Aug 12, 2010

SYDNEY, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Private equity firm TPG Capital's [TPG.UL] debt investment team is looking at a restructuring plan for Australian power generator Alinta Energy , The Australian newspaper said on Friday.

UPDATE 1-Mexico pensions bet $460 mln on property, debt

Aug 12, 2010

MEXICO CITY, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Mexican private pension funds are on track to more than double their investment in private equity this year after placing roughly $460 million with real estate and debt funds this month.

Buyout firms target M. Stanley real estate fund-FT

Aug 11, 2010

NEW YORK, Aug 10 (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firms have approached Morgan Stanley about buying a stake in its struggling real estate fund management business, the Financial Times said on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest

Aug 11, 2010

BANGALORE, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media on Wednesday:

UPDATE 1-Spain's ACS strikes deal with CVC on Abertis stake

Aug 11, 2010

MADRID, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Spain's ACS has reached a deal to sell a chunk of its stake in Spanish toll road operator Abertis to private equity fund CVC, freeing up the builder to cut debt and pursue its interest in Iberdrola.

UPDATE 1-Public sector outsourcer Tribal gets bid approaches

Aug 11, 2010

* Tribal says received preliminary expressions of interest

UPDATE 1-Nestor Healthcare rejects 102 mln stg offer

Aug 11, 2010

Aug 11 (Reuters) - Nestor Healthcare said on Wednesday it rejected an unsolicited approach from a private-equity group that valued the British company about 101.6 million pounds, calling it too low.

RWE launches sale of German gas grid-sources

Aug 11, 2010

AMSTERDAM/DUSSELDORF, Aug 11 (Reuters) - German utility group RWE has launched an auction process for the sale of its regulated gas transmission network Thyssengas, two people familiar with the matter said.

UPDATE 1-CPPIB assets rise but investment value shrinks

Aug 11, 2010

* Says rise offset by C$1.7 bln drop in investment value

UPDATE 1-RWE launches sale of German gas grid-sources

Aug 11, 2010

* Regulated asset base estimated around 500 mln eur-source

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