Private equity firms in Europe have the lowest proportion of women in senior roles globally, with the rate falling over the past year. Read More »

Deals of the Day is back! We’re your one-stop-shop for the morning’s biggest news from the finance beat, including M&A, IPOs, banks, hedge funds and private equity. Here’s what’s happening today: Read More »

Deals of the Day is back! We’re your one-stop-shop for the morning’s biggest news from the finance beat, including M&A, IPOs, banks, hedge funds and private equity. Here’s what’s happening today: Read More »

Today we introduce WSJ.com’s Deals page, a new home for the Journal’s coverage of deal news, analysis and commentary. Here you’ll find Journal coverage from around the world on all things deals – M&A, IPOs, bankruptcy, activist investors, dealmakers, deal governance, antitrust and the private-equity business.

Our coverage of deals – transactions at the nexus of business and finance — has expanded in recent months, as we’ve dedicated reporters to subjects such as activism, deal finance and the legal aspects of deals. Read More »

Blackstone Group LP has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in information security company Accuvant Inc., which aims to protect its clients against cyberattacks and similar threats. Read More »

A shareholder lawsuit over the buyout of an ambulance operator has put two banks on the defensive, for different reasons and with very different outcomes.

RBC Capital Markets LLC was found liable on Friday for its role in advising on the 2011 leveraged buyout of Rural/Metro Corp., an Arizona-based ambulance operator.

The judge’s ruling, following a four-day trial last summer, found RBC’s desire to get fees on both sides of the deal–as an adviser to the company and a potential lender to its private-equity buyer–wasn’t amply disclosed to Rural/Metro and was a conflict that colored the bank’s advice and caused Rural/Metro’s board to accept an unfairly low $17.25-a-share bid from Warburg Pincus LLC. Read More »

Snack bar maker KIND Inc. is back in the hands of the company’s founder, who bought back the stake owned by private-equity firm VMG Partners for $220 million in cash and notes, according to a letter to VMG’s investors and a person with knowledge of the transaction. Read More »

Private equity firm KKR & Co. has expanded its Asian energy and infrastructure team with the redeployment of a U.S. director and the appointment of the former managing director of EIG Global Energy Partners in Australia. Read More »

You don’t have to found your own private-equity firm to bring home the big bucks. Private-equity firms took advantage of surging stock markets, rising real estate prices and accommodating debt markets in 2013 to cash out of investments at a record pace. The banner year’s spoils were shared by many in the business. Read More »

Deals of the Day is back! We’re your one-stop-shop for the morning’s biggest news from the finance beat, including M&A, IPOs, banks, hedge funds and private equity.  Here’s what’s happening today. Read More »