DealTalk: Coles private equity pullout highlights debt worries
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The withdrawal of private equity bidders from an auction for Australian retailer Coles Group Ltd.  has underscored how the demands of increasingly risk averse borrowers threaten some of the more debt-laden deals.
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Shares in Wesfarmers plunged Tuesday, a day after the Perth-based conglomerate agreed to pay 22 billion dollars (18.7 billion US) for retailer Coles in Australia&#39;s largest corporate deal.
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One of the largest private takeovers in history -- the $25.3 billion buyout for college loan giant Sallie Mae -- unraveled yesterday after its buyers balked at the price, citing turmoil in the credit markets and federal legislation to cut subsidies to student lenders.
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The private equity consortium looking at  bidding for Australian retailer Coles Group Ltd.  said  on Wednesday it could not confirm whether all four members were  still in the group.
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MELBOURNE/SYDNEY  - Shares in Australia's Coles Group Ltd.  fell as much as 4 percent on Tuesday after private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts  pulled out of a consortium planning to bid for the retailer.
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co LP and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s  private equity arm are worried about certain financial conditions inside Harman International Industries Inc , concerns that could threaten the $8 billion deal, a source said on Friday.
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The cozy world of private equity is about to become a lot less comfortable.
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MELBOURNE/SYDNEY  - Shares in Australia's Coles Group Ltd.  fell nearly 4 percent on Tuesday after private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts  pulled out of a consortium planning to bid for the retailer.
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Officials of embattled Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. yesterday moved to squelch speculation that its Boston money management firm, Putnam Investments, will be divorced from its corporate parent, either in a sale to an outside buyer or through a private buyout engineered by Putnam executives.
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J. C. Flowers & Company has told its investors just how much money they may lose in the private equity firmâs battle over the buyout of Sallie Mae.
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Â· Company faces insolvency without Â£400m cash boostÂ· Public-private deal was driven by Treasury
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Australia's second-biggest retailer,   Coles Myer Ltd., on Wednesday rejected a A$17.3 billion ($13.3   billion) buyout bid by a private equity consortium, saying it   substantially undervalued the company.
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A group of private equity firms and  banks have threatened to scuttle their planned $25 billion  buyout of Sallie Mae, the student lender said on Wednesday, in  the most dramatic sign yet that a once-booming takeover market  may be cooling.
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Business & money: Deal forced to be scrapped as the fallout from the sub-prime markets continues to spread
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Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is shutting down some operations of its debt-securities sales division and transferring others -- moves that experts said should tighten the company's internal controls after an accounting scandal.
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Global private equity group CVC  has pulled out of a consortium eyeing a bid for Australia's Coles Group Ltd.  after going through the retailers' books, the buyout group said Monday.
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The company has some major issues, which weighed heavily on its recent IPO.