Nasdaq Said to Have Held Talks With Carlyle on Going Private

February 11, 2013
Bloomberg News

When NYSE was planning to merge with Deutsche Boerse AG in Frankfurt in 2011, Nasdaq OMX and IntercontinentalExchange made a joint hostile bid for the U.S. exchange in an attempt to derail the deal. The Deutsche Boerse deal was rejected by European competition authorities in February 2012, while the Nasdaq-IntercontinentalExchange bid was blocked in the U.S. on concern the combination would dominate American stock listings.

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