Links for 2007-07-30

• Emap calls in A&O to advise on sale options - Legal Week, legal news, comment, events and legal jobs Corporate partners Don McGown and Richard Browne were instructed by Emap last week to advise on the review of the company’s structure and assets, which include radio stations and consumer magazines including FHM and Grazia in addition to trade titles su
• Private equity stalks Emap's business titles with £1.3bn offer | | Guardian Unlimited Business Apax Partners, the private equity group, has made an informal approach to buy Emap's business-to-business division for £1.3bn. The offer, which is thought to be at a very early stage, is understood to have been partly responsible for Friday's announcemen
• BBC NEWS | Business | Emap shares up as sale considered Shares in radio and magazine group Emap have jumped after it said it was mulling a sale or break-up of the firm.
• Apax makes ?1.3bn move on Emap titles - Times Online Apax has set its sights on Emap’s business-to-business arm, which owns a stable of trade magazines and is worth about £1.3 billion. If the approach is successful it would mark the first stage in the possible break-up of the media empire, which has a ma
• Radio rival eyes Emap sell-off | This is Money Troubled media group Emap, home to radio station Magic and magazine Heat, is attracting attention from rival GCap and a clutch of private equity firms after hinting at a sale or demerger.
• Scotsman.com Business - Media & Leisure - Richard Park tunes into Emap stations bid FAME Academy judge Richard Park is believed to be considering a bid for radio stations, including Forth and Clyde, owned by media group Emap. Park's private equity-backed Global Radio firm is among the favourites looking at the company after it put itself
• Sale of media giant Emap could make ?2.6bn | Business | The Observer EMAP, the media conglomerate that effectively put itself up for sale on Friday, could be worth up to 1200p per share, or more than £2.6bn, according to the City's highest-rated media analyst.
• Apax leads charge for Emap's 'crown jewels' - Telegraph Apax, the private equity company, has submitted informal proposals to buy Emap’s business-to-business arm for around £1.3bn.
• Royal exchange: Candy to the bitter End - Telegraph Employees at Emap, the media company, were left fuming on Friday after the company sent an e‑mail to all staff worldwide explaining the board’s decision to carry out a strategic review that could see the publisher of magazines including FHM, Closer an
• Emap appoints banks to look into sale or split-up of leaderless group - Times Online Emap, the magazines, exhibitions and radio company, signalled it was willing to end its 120-year history after it appointed Lazard and Citigroup to consider a “possible sale or demerger of some or all” of its constituent parts.
• Emap No Longer All Over The Map - Forbes.com British media company Emap has been getting a lot of stick for its mixed portfolio, with investors concerned that it was showing little sense of direction or strategy.
• Break-up looms for Emap | | Guardian Unlimited Business Now Emap is investigating a sale or demerger - and all the talk in the City is of a break-up. The fact that the group is without a chief executive following Tom Moloney's abrupt departure in May makes it all the more likely.
• Emap goes on sale with £2bn-plus price tag - Telegraph Emap, the struggling owner of lads' mag FHM and the Kiss and Magic radio stations, has put itself up for sale or break-up with a £2bn-plus price tag after receiving several approaches for parts of the business, including from private equity house Apax Pa