private equity firms

The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, is reporting that Sprint Nextel has received interest in its Nextel business from Latin American carrier NII Holdings Inc. and several private-equity firms.

But this is far from a done deal.

NBC Universal and private equity firms Blackstone and Bain Capital agree to buy The Weather Channel.

Private-equity firms, the so-called barbarians of Wall Street, are famous for scooping up downtrodden firms, cleaning them up and then selling for a huge profit.

Verizon will pay $5.9 billion for Alltel's equity and assume $22 billion in debt in a deal that comes less than a year after the private equity firms closed their purchase of Alltel.

Citi's sweetening the pot for the buyout crowd as it tries to lighten the load on its balance sheet, allowing private equity firms to pick and choose which assets they want to bid on.

Citigroup is close to making a deal to unload $12 billion of risky leveraged loans and bonds to a group of private-equity firms, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.

Clear Channel Communications Inc. and the private equity firms seeking to close a $19.5 billion buyout of the company have sued their lenders.

Clear Channel Communications Inc. and the private equity firms seeking to close a $19.5 billion buyout of the company have sued their lenders.

Clear Channel Communications Inc. and the private equity firms seeking to close a $19.5 billion buyout of the company have sued their lenders.

Clear Channel's long-awaited $19 billion sale to private equity firms Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners is in danger of falling through, according to a Wall Street Journal report.