Private Equity

Carl Icahn is pressing forward with his lawsuit against Dell Inc. in an effort to sink the all-but-certain approval of its $24.6 billion buyout.

Apollo Global Management set all sorts of records in the second quarter, with profits rising tenfold and its highest-ever dividend.

TPG Capital has asked investors to give it an extra year to invest the remaining $3 billion from its last fund.

The Carlyle Group is back in the black in the second quarter.

Amidst fears that interest rates may soon rise, private equity-owned companies are taking on record amounts of debt to pay those owners.

Carl Icahn isn't giving up his fight to block the sale of Dell Inc. to its founder and a private-equity firm.

Michael Dell appears to have snatched a last-minute victory for his proposed private-equity-backed buyout of the computermarker he founded nearly 30 years ago.

Dell and the special committee of Dell Inc.'s board overseeing the sale reached a new agreement that will both pay investors more and make it easier for deal to win shareholder approval.

Grosvenor Capital Management has clinched a deal for Credit Suisse's third-party private equity business.

Fortress Investment Group's second-quarter profit nearly tripled, buoyed by higher hedge fund fee income.

Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners' bid to purchase the computermaker he founded three decades ago was dealt a crippling blow by the special committee of Dell Inc.'s board overseeing the sale.

The committee refused to accept Dell and Silver Lake's offer of an extra 10 cents per share in exchange for changing the voting rules to make winning approval of the deal easier.