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• UPDATE 4-Chesapeake sells stake in assets to Sinopec for $1.02 bln Monday, 25 Feb 2013 | 10:58 AM ET

  Feb 25- Chesapeake Energy Corp will sell a 50 percent interest in some of its oil and gas properties in the Mississippi Lime shale formation to China Petroleum& Chemical Corp for $1.02 billion cash, a valuation that fell short of some expectations.

• Barnes & Nobel Founder Bids For Retail Business  Monday, 25 Feb 2013 | 10:00 AM ET

  

  John Tinker, Maxim Group analyst, discusses the founder's buyout bid for the bookstore, and the outlook on the Nook media business.

• UPDATE 1-Race is on for $6 bln Maroc stake as Etisalat picks banks Monday, 25 Feb 2013 | 6:49 AM ET

  *Vivendi selling 53 pct Maroc stake worth about $6 bln. DUBAI/ LONDON, Feb 25- Etisalat, the United Arab Emirates' biggest telecoms operator, has lined up advisers for its bid for Vivendi's 53 percent stake in Maroc Telecom.

• UPDATE 2-Russia's Prokhorov sells Polyus Gold stake for $3.6bln Friday, 22 Feb 2013 | 8:17 AM ET

  MOSCOW/ LONDON, Feb 22- Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has sold his stake in London- listed gold miner Polyus Gold to two Russian buyers for $3.6 billion after approval from British regulators.

• UPDATE 1-Onexim sells entire Polyus stake for $3.6 bln Friday, 22 Feb 2013 | 2:38 AM ET

  *Deal was under review by UK Takeover Panel. MOSCOW, Feb 22- Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim group has sold its entire 37.78 percent stake in London- listed gold miner Polyus Gold for $3.6 billion to two Russian buyers.

• Faber Report: Dell's Earnings Beat  Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013 | 9:41 AM ET

  

  CNBC's David Faber breaks down the tech giant's fourth quarter numbers, and reports the latest details on the company's plans to go private.

• UPDATE 1-Japan Tobacco stock hit as $10bln stake sale nears Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013 | 10:55 PM ET

  TOKYO/ HONG KONG, Feb 20- Japan's government is set to launch the sale of part of its stake in Japan Tobacco, a move that hit the company's stock as investors sold ahead of the $10 billion offering. Japan Tobacco shares were down 3.2 percent at 2,832 yen in late morning, having fallen to a three-week low of 2,752 yen.

• REFILE-UPDATE 1-Michael Kors to sell big part of stake as shares soar Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013 | 6:06 PM ET

  NEW YORK, Feb 19- Fashion designer Michael Kors is planning to sell a big chunk of his stake in his namesake fashion house at a time when the company's shares are at an all-time high. The filing came after Kors shares reached a new high, closing at $64.84 on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

• UPDATE 1-Michael Kors to sells big part of stake as shares soar Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013 | 5:33 PM ET

  NEW YORK, Feb 19- Fashion designer Michael Kors is planning to sell a big chunk of his stake in his namesake fashion house at a time when the company's shares are at an all-time high. The filing came after Kors shares reached a new high, closing at $64.84 on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

• Dell is Bellwether for LBO Upturn: Pro  Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013 | 4:20 AM ET

  

  Mark O'Hare, CEO of Preqin, says leverage is back, as multiples on buyout deals are going up.

• BlackBerry shares slip after former CEO Balsillie sells stake Thursday, 14 Feb 2013 | 10:00 AM ET

  TORONTO, Feb 14- Shares of Blackberry slipped on Thursday, after the company's former Co-Chief Executive Officer Jim Balsillie disclosed that he had sold his once-sizable stake in the embattled smartphone maker. Balsillie, who stepped down as CEO a year ago, owned about 26.8 million shares, or a roughly 5 percent stake in the company, as of Dec. 31, 2011.

• UPDATE 1-ING to sell KB Financial stake for up to $675 mln -IFR Thursday, 14 Feb 2013 | 4:39 AM ET

  *ING sale part of wider Asia divestment plan. HONG KONG, Feb 14- Dutch financial services group ING plans to sell its remaining stake of around 5 percent in South Korea's KB Financial Group Inc, a deal valued at up to $675 million, IFR reported on Thursday.

• Dell CEO agreed to lower shares' value to push $24 bln buyout Thursday, 14 Feb 2013 | 12:49 AM ET

  *Mike Dell agreed to lower price to help Silver Lake deal. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 14- Dell Inc Chief Executive Michael Dell, aiming to clinch a $24.4 billion deal to take the No. 3 PC maker private, agreed to value his 16 percent stake in the company at about 2 percent below the price offered to other shareholders, company filings on Thursday showed.

• Comcast to buy GE's stake in NBCUniversal for $16.7 bln Tuesday, 12 Feb 2013 | 4:37 PM ET

  Feb 12- Comcast Corp said it would buy General Electric's 49 percent equity stake in their NBCUniversal joint venture for about $16.7 billion.

• T. Rowe Price Speaks Out on Dell Buyout  Tuesday, 12 Feb 2013 | 12:30 PM ET

  

  T. Rowe Price is the second largest shareholder of Dell, and the company says it will not support the Dell buyout "as put forward," with the FMHR traders and Dan Niles, AlphaOne Capital Partners.

• UPDATE 2-Sanofi boosting stake in U.S. biotech Regeneron Monday, 11 Feb 2013 | 2:29 PM ET

  *Sanofi to buy Regeneron shares on open market. Sanofi's plans, disclosed by the companies in separate statements on Monday, boosted both companies' shares. Sanofi controls 16.7 percent of Regeneron, or 15.82 million shares, according to Reuters data.

• Google's Schmidt to sell roughly 42 pct of stake Friday, 8 Feb 2013 | 5:52 PM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 8- Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is selling roughly 42 percent of his stake in the Internet search company over the coming year, Google announced on Friday. Schmidt will sell 3.2 million shares of Class A common stock through a stock trading plan, Google said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• UPDATE 3-No plan for Peugeot stake, France's PM says Friday, 8 Feb 2013 | 8:55 AM ET

  *Peugeot announced 4.1 bln eur non-cash writedown. The comment came a day after Peugeot, suffering falling sales in a depressed European car market, highlighted the scale of its woes by taking a 4.1 billion euro writedown on the value of its plant and other automotive assets.

• UPDATE 2-France has no plan for Peugeot stake-ministry source Friday, 8 Feb 2013 | 6:43 AM ET

  *Peugeot announced 1.4 bln eur non-cash writedown. "An equity investment by the state in Peugeot is not on the agenda," the source said on Friday. " Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac had said earlier France might consider investing in Peugeot, helping send its shares higher.

• Inside a Private Dell  Tuesday, 5 Feb 2013 | 11:45 AM ET

  

  Is it easier to work your way out of a PC hole if you are not public? Dennis Berman, The Wall Street Journal; and Dan Primack, Fortune Magazine, discuss Dell's plan to go private, and what investors are likely to expect.