  | | | | NEW YORK/ROUND ROCK, Texas (Reuters) - Dell Inc on Thursday postponed a shareholder vote on CEO Michael Dell's $24.4 billion buyout offer, after he won 11th-hour backing from several large investors but still fell short of enough votes to seal the deal. | | |  | | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Japanese telecoms group SoftBank Corp offered to pay $8.5 billion to acquire Universal Music but its owner, French media and entertainment conglomerate Vivendi , rejected the bid, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the proposal. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Real estate investment trust American Homes 4 Rent said it expects its initial public offering of common shares to be priced between $16 and $18 per share, raising as much as $793 million. | | | | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Blackstone Group and MBK Partners plan Singapore initial public offerings for assets the private equity companies separately own in Taiwan and India, sources said. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Apache Corp said on Thursday it will sell its Gulf of Mexico shelf assets for $3.75 billion to Fieldwood Energy LLC in a deal that will allow the U.S. oil and gas company to focus on growth from its U.S. onshore assets. | | | | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - Qihoo 360 Technology Co said it is in early talks with Sohu.com Inc to buy its Sogou search engine, a deal estimated to be worth up to $1.4 billion and which would help the upstart command a quarter of China's search market. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Obesity drugmaker Vivus Inc is close to reaching a settlement with First Manhattan Co, giving the dissident investor a majority of the company board, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday evening. | | | | | | SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. hedge funds Oaktree Capital Management and Centerbridge Partners on Friday asked Australia's takeover regulator to intervene in surfwear company Billabong International Ltd's $359 million refinancing deal with Altamont Capital Partners. | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc said on Thursday it opposes Nelson Peltz's proposal that PepsiCo Inc buy Mondelez International and shed its beverage business, signaling that the activist investor's proposal could fall flat with fellow investors. | | | | | | (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday allowed investors to pursue a closely watched lawsuit accusing several of the world's largest private equity firms of colluding to depress prices on companies they sought to buy. | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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