The Steinbrenner family is reportedly considering selling the Yankees. But don’t expect PE to be all that interested.

Piramal Healthcare, a Mumbai-based pharmaceuticals company, has agreed to acquire the Burlington, Mass.-based healthcare data provider Decision Resources Group from Providence Equity Partners for approximately $635 million. PRESS RELEASE: Piramal Healthcare Limited, an innovation led company, has agreed to acquire Decision Resources Group a US based company in the healthcare information segment, from Providence Equity [...]

Pharmaceutical manufacturing company Piramal Healthcare is to acquire US-based healthcare information company Decision Resources Group from Providence Equity Partners for around US$635 million. DRG will remain headquartered in Burlington, MA. The company will continue to be led by Mr. Hoenigsberg and the existing senior management team. Barclays is acting as lead financial advisor to Decision [...]

Providence Equity Partners has raised upwards of $4.5 billion for its seventh fund, which has a target of $6 billion, and the firm will likely hold a final close in the third quarter, peHUB has learned.

Walt Disney, Comcast Corp. and News Corp are buying Providence Equity’s 10% stake in Hulu, according to a report.

CVC has beaten out other buyout firms, including Madison Dearborn Partners and Providence Equity Partners, in the race to buy AlixPartners from private equity owner Hellman & Friedman, sources tell Reuters.

AutoTrader, which owns Kelly Blue Blook, plans to pay a $400 mln dividend to shareholders–a PE firm and VC among them.

Providence Equity Partners is especially bullish on education deals, a sector he says is under-served by private equity firms, CEO Jonathan Nelson said Wednesday during a keynote interview at the PartnerConnect conference. Education is the second-largest market in the U.S., at $1.3 trillion, Nelson said. “The scale is eye-popping,” Nelson said. “Growth and importance is [...]

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Lower-rated borrowers are seizing the opportunity to amend and extend their debt facilities while lenders are willing to accept them, sister magazine Buyouts reports.