March 9, 2010 - Marketing data and research firm infoGROUP has agreed to be taken private by CCMP Capital Advisors.
March 8, 2010 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has begun courting pension funds interested in buying assets of distressed bank holding companies.
March 8, 2010 - The 2010 default total remained at 16 last week, as no global corporate issuers defaulted, according to a report from Standard & Poor's.
March 8, 2010 - Institutions in Florida, Illinois, Maryland and Utah failed Friday, bringing the year's total to 26. The failed banks held combined assets of roughly $1.1 billion and their resolution is expected to cost the Deposit Insurance Fund more than $300 million.
March 8, 2010 - Centaur LLC, a horse track, off-track betting and casino operator based in Indianapolis, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware on Saturday.
March 8, 2010 - Shannon Lowry Nagles first day as a partner in Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsons bankruptcy and restructuring practice may have been last week, but shes no stranger to Fried Frank partners such as Gary Kaplan and Brad Eric Scheler.
March 8, 2010 - Sun Capital Partners has acquired Arch Aluminum & Glass Co. through a 363 bankruptcy sale.
March 5, 2010 - Affiliated Media Inc.'s reorganization plan has been approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
March 5, 2010 - Bondholders of media giant Tribune Co. are suing the banks that arranged the companys leveraged buyout, claiming the banks knew the $8 billion in loans they arranged would make the company insolvent.
March 3, 2010 - Advent International, which already has offices scattered across 16 countries worldwide, opened a New York office, relocating managing director Tim Franks from London to oversee the new outpost.
March 2, 2010 - PrinceRidge has added three managing directors John McNicholas, Valerie Red-Horse and Ron Zampolin to its corporate finance team.
March 1, 2010 - Catalina Lighting Inc., a Miami manufacturer, distributor and designer of lighting products, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida. Private-equity firm Boyne Capital Partners has emerged as the stalking-horse bidder for Catalina's assets.
March 1, 2010 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., a book publisher founded in 1832, said it plans to restructure its balance sheet with $650 million from a group of backers that includes hedge fund investor John Paulson and Guggenheim Partners.
March 1, 2010 - Regent Communications Inc. said Monday that it has filed its pre-packaged bankruptcy petition with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Del. Oaktree Capital Management will acquire the Cincinnati radio broadcasting company out of bankruptcy.
February 26, 2010 - The following are some changes in credit ratings and outlooks announced by Moody's last week.