"It is understood Candover and Cinven, who jointly own German publishing group Springer, have formed a consortium to submit a joint second offer for Emap’s business-to-business (B2B) publishing unit."

"Apax, the private equity firm, has teamed up with the publisher of The Guardian newspaper to mount a joint £1.2bn bid for Emap’s business publishing division … as it would fit neatly with Incisive Media , in which [Apax] has a shareholding"

"Dennis Publishing is close to finalising the sale of its US magazines Maxim, Stuff and music title Blender to private equity firm Quadrangle Group for an estimated $250m (£125.4m)."