Sentences with phrase «equity firms expressing»

With private equity firms expressing a very high level of interest in these transactions, one might have expected more activity.

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The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, reported on Tuesday that Hunt Valley, Maryland - based telecom Sinclair Broadcast Group has expressed an interest in buying the weather - focused television network from an ownership group that includes private equity firms Bain Capital and Blackstone Group, as well as Comcast's NBCUniversal.

A person familiar with the matter said WPP, owner of ad agencies JWT and Ogilvy & Mather, had been contacted by one private equity group and a venture capital firm expressing interest in the Kantar business if WPP ever decides to sell.