Private Equity

Stephen Schwarzman's Blackstone Group has just one woman on an 11-person board, putting Blackstone in percentage terms near the bottom of the Standard & Poor's 500.

Saudi money, including its Public Investment Fund, is a force in Silicon Valley and beyond. But the alleged murder of a prominent Saudi journalist is putting some leaders in an uncomfortable spot, as more top executives back away from a planned conference in Saudi Arabia.

Institutional Shareholder Services, the big advisory firm, is considering a new policy of recommending "no" votes against certain directors on companies without a single woman on their boards.

Citigroup Inc. said investment-banking chief Ray McGuire would move to a different role as part of a reorganization that aims to more seamlessly integrate the company's stock- and bond-underwriting business. Citigroup will combine its corporate and investment-banking group with its capital-markets origination business to create a new Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory division, according to a memo.

Financial leverage brings great risk, but also brings great reward for companies.

Private equity is essentially capital or shares of ownership that are not publicly traded.

Elon Musk announced to the world that wants to take Tesla private. But can he do it? And is he the reason a deal may not get done? Listen to The Deal's Senior Editor Ron Orol give us the inside scoop.

Tesla is reportedly trying to go private at $420 per share. Here's why Elon Musk taking the company private makes sense.

Commercial landscaping provider BrightView shares moved slightly lower on Thursday following its debut as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange.

Everything you need to know answering what is equity, home, owner's, stock and shareholder equity and how to calculate equity.