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Brazil's Equatorial bids for troubled rival Celpa
SAO PAULO, June 27 - Brazilian electricity utility Equatorial Energia placed a formal bid for control of debt-laden power distributor Celpa, according to a securities filing on Wednesday.
Stern Advice-A mid-year look at the coming tax mess
WASHINGTON, June 27 - A senior Internal Revenue Service official says she's already concerned about what next year's tax filing season will look like, because of the mass of expiring provisions and possible tax changes that could occur near the end of this year and into next year.
UPDATE 2-German banker jailed in F1 bribery case
MUNICH/LONDON, June 27 - A judge jailed a German banker for more than 8 years on Wednesday for taking $44 million in bribes during the sale of Formula One in a case that centred on a payment from Bernie Ecclestone, the motor sport's commercial chief.
Buyout duo drop new bid, freezing Iglo sale-sources
* Blackstone and BC will not table revised Iglo bid -sources
UPDATE 1-KKR buys majority stake in Australia's GenesisCare
* KKR says has invested over $9 bln in healthcare since 1995
Banker in Formula One bribery case gets 8-1/2 years
MUNICH, June 27 - A German banker who admitted to taking bribes during the sale of a stake in the Formula One business, was sentenced to 8 years and six months in prison by a Munich court on Wednesday.
Private equity wary of German green energy shift
FRANKFURT, June 27 - Any German politicians hoping private equity investors will cough up some of the billions needed to finance the shift to green energy should probably think again, if comments at an industry conference on Wednesday are anything to go by.
EU mergers and takeovers (June 27)
BRUSSELS, June 27 - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process:
KKR buys 63 pct of Australian healthcare firm
SYDNEY, June 27 - Buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has agreed to take a 63 percent stake in Australia's GenesisCare for an undisclosed sum, as it looks to tap into the growing need for healthcare in the ageing country, the two companies said in a statement on Wednesday.
Australian billionaires reignite deals market as valuations tank
* Stock market valuations at decade-low as global turmoil weighs
- Technology: Liberty Global to buy Puerto Rican cable company
- Healthcare: Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
- Consumer: Financier pays $2 million for Emancipation Proclamation
- Energy: UPDATE 2-Pamplona Capital buys 5 pct of Italy's UniCredit
- Industrials: Margin-hunting airlines may shed catering units
- M&As;: News Corp approves publishing, entertainment split - WSJ
- Bankruptcy: UPDATE 2-Stockton, California's ratings fall ahead of bankruptcy
- IPOs: DryShips open to selling drilling unit Ocean Rig - COO
- Hedge Funds: Hedge fund exit requests lower than year ago
- Regulatory News: PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - June 28
- Stockton, California, to file for bankruptcy
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- FDA OKs first obesity drug in 13 years
- Former storm Debby churns away from sodden Florida |
- Bernard Madoff's brother to plead guilty, U.S. says
- Google goes up against Amazon, Apple with Nexus tablet |
- Holder faces House contempt vote on gun probe
- Mexico's Pena Nieto wraps up campaign with victory near
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- Merkel to face down summit pleas for crisis action |