Aston Martin was acquired by a Kuwait-backed private equity consortium from Ford for £500m in 2007.

Univision was also up against a threat from the private equity consortium that if Univision did not take its offer it would walk away, these people said.

The company was majority-owned by Ryan and Chris Finley until 2009, when it was sold to a private equity consortium.

A rival private equity consortium lobbed in a much higher bid late Sunday, people briefed on the negotiations said.

An agreement to buy Univision would be a coup for the equity consortium.

A few months later, he headed a private equity consortium that bought back the business for $11.4 billion and still owns it as of 2013.

On 27 June 2007 it was announced that the group was sold to a private equity consortium for £260 million (subject to regulatory approval).

The private equity consortium will also assume about 1.1 billion euros in debt.

It was created in 2007 from Thomson Learning after Thomson Corporation sold that division to a private equity consortium.

A private equity consortium led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts made two unsuccessful bids last year.