This is a technique often used by private equity companies.

Right now, financial institutions - everything from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity companies - are driving the market.

In 2008, Larson also launched, and briefly ran, a small private equity company.

Other interested parties are likely to be rival private equity companies, analysts in London said.

But there is little precedent for a private equity company to take over a national paper.

It was funded by the private equity company Primary Capital and cost around £100 million.

The report highlights is the central role private equity companies now play in social care.

It is private equity companies that are what's at issue here, not the private sector.

Private equity companies almost exclusively use a combination of general and limited partners for their investment funds.

Rating agencies assess not just private equity companies and their products, but also countries.