Bain Capital News

The Valence Group's Anton Ticktin , who's been focused on mergers and acquisitions in the chemical sector since the late 1990s, ranks 2013's deal prospects as bullish, with major private equity players wading in.

HD Supply is expected to go public next week, in an IPO that could raise as much as $1.33 billion.

Guitar Center has fallen on hard times. According to Reuters , American finanical services company Standard & Poor's has dropped the music retailer's corporate credit rating to "CCC+" from "B-," citing struggles with "weak operating trends."

Private equity firms Bain Capital and Altor offered $1.1 billion for salmon farmer Cermaq's fish feed arm on Monday, complicating Marine Harvest's plans to take over the whole firm in a $1.7 billion hostile bid.

Trinseo SA, a plastics maker backed by Bain Capital, said on Friday that it has decided not to pursue its proposed initial public offering of up to $400 million.

Global stock markets fell for a third straight day on Thursday and the U.S. dollar hit a 10-week low against the yen as investors unwound bets linked to central bank stimulus measures that have buoyed many asset markets.

Standard & Poor's cut its debt rating on Bain Capital-owned Guitar Center Holdings Inc late last month, as the music retailer purchased during the height of the 2007 buyout boom struggles with "weak operating trends."

Right about now, about a dozen Pittsburgh life science entrepreneurs should be wrapping up a meeting with the Boston arm of Polaris Partners.

Edcon, a South African clothing retailer owned by Bain Capital Partners, posted a wider annual loss as changes in stores and management disrupted sales.

Today, Wall Street Reports announced new research reports highlighting Sensata Technologies Holding NV , Trimble Navigation Limited , Waters Corp.

WorldPay's private equity owners, Bain Capital LLC and Advent International Corp, have canceled the auction of the payment processing firm's U.S. unit, WorldPay told Reuters on Friday.

Bain Capital LLC and AXA Private Equity are the finalists in the bidding contest for French furniture-store chain Maisons du Monde, owned by private equity firms Apax and LBO France, sources familiar with the deal said.

After Mitt Romney's 2012 train wreck, you might think the private equity industry would want to stay far, far away from electoral politics.

Bain Capital LLC is contemplating a Latin America-focused investment fund in the next three to five years, one of its managing directors said on Wednesday, making it the latest private equity firm to consider such a move.

Reported by the Huffington Post is the repost BuzzFeed Politics story Liberal Super PAC Had Secret Bain Ties on main stream media's purportedly biased left, selling out for dollars to the right .. Apparently the top fundraiser at American Bridge and her associate felt like being a "Boehner" in being "bought off" by Bain Capital.

Buyout firms from Bain Capital to Onex Corp. are raising loans through companies they own to pay themselves dividends at a pace that exceeds even the frothy days leading to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Shoppers take to the aisles following the grand opening of 201central in Wesley Chapel, Wednesday, Oct.

The founder of Boston-based private-equity firm Bain Capital has sold an apartment at the Ritz-Carlton Residences for $5.2 million.

Experian is the only major credit bureaus founded outside of the United States .

Solamere Capital , the private equity fund-of-funds and co-investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney's eldest son, Taggart Romney , has begun raising its second vehicle, Solamere Capital Fund II LP, according to a government filing.