In her new book “Bad Company,” journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care ...

A private space exploration company based in Japan, ispace, wants to see people living on the moon by 2040. They have plans ...

A private company is held in private hands. The company is owned by its founders, management, and/or a group of private investors in most cases. The public isn’t privy to its business.

The secondary market for private company stock has emerged as an economically vital ecosystem for millions of U.S. private company employees and institutional investors. A steady and dramatic ...

CapVest pledged to invest $500 million to grow mergers-and-acquisitions technology provider Datasite.

The U.S. military transported 17 new immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay military base on Sunday, just before efforts to jail an anticipated 30,000 immigrants in tent camps at the base were ...

Private equity is an investment strategy in which investors take over ownership of a company and increase its value with the intention to resell it for a profit. The private-equity model is unique ...

Residents of the west Chicago suburb of Lisle, Illinois, said their water bills are getting higher and higher — with some people forced to use a private utility company based on where they live.

The nearly century-old Japanese company that founded Toyota Motor in the 1930s plans to go private with backing from the car ...