Teijin Automotive bought by private equity firm

Canadian Plastics  March 31, 2025   Automotive Plastics Processes Aurelius Private Equity Mid-Market Buyout is buying Teijin Automotive from its Japanese parent company Teijin Ltd. German firm Aurelius Private Equity Mid-Market Buyout is buying Auburn …

Warner Bros. Discovery Adds Private Equity Veteran Anton Levy to Board After Activist Pressure

Warner Bros. Discovery is beefing up its board of directors with a private equity and technology veteran, Anton Levy. Levy, currently an advisory director at the private equity giant General Atlantic, previously served as co-president and chairman of …

Global Private Equity Trends: How Market Volatility Is Shaping New Opportunities

Global private equity has entered a defining era. What began as a temporary disruption—marked by a surge in inflation, rising interest rates, and growing geopolitical uncertainty—has now evolved into a more permanent state of volatility. Rather than …

Morning Coffee: Goldman Sachs accused of using clichés to justify enormous pay. Private equity jobs face disappearance

Goldman Sachs pays well, but some people there receive more than others. In 2024, Goldman's median global pay was $163k, according to its recent proxy statement. Its mean global pay was $359k. In the UK, the average Goldman employee got $764k for last …

Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer

Thames Water has picked US private equity giant KKR as its "preferred partner" to buy the troubled water utility firm. The planned investment by KKR would help it deal with its mountain of debt, and Thames is aiming for the transaction to be …

Thames Water names US private equity group KKR as preferred bidder

Thames Water has picked the US investment firm KKR to take a stake in the business, as the embattled water company fights to stave off nationalisation. The UK’s biggest water supplier, which is struggling under a debt pile of close to £20bn, said it had …

OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023.  SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI on Monday announced it had closed what amounts to the …

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Latest Nuveen survey reveals stronger investor appetite for private assets

Every year since 2021, Nuveen’s annual EQuilibrium survey has chronicled significant change, marked by economic shifts, geopolitical uncertainty and the evolution of private markets.   The findings in 2025 continue this trend: investors are taking cash off …

London Stock Exchange sees decline as UK firms opt to remain private longer, says UK Finance report

UK Finance has highlighted the evolving relationship between British businesses and public exchanges like the London Stock Exchange, calling for a new approach in light of significant changes. The finance industry body, which represents the banking sector, …