CVC Capital Partners Ltd and Epicor Software Corp

Epicor Software Corp: NEW Reuters Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners Ltd has emerged as the front runner to acquire Epicor Software Corp in a deal that could value the business software company at more than $3 billion 1.77 billion , including debt, according to people familiar with the matter, according to Euro News. Negotiations between CVC and Apax are ongoing and have not yet been finalised, the people said. They asked not to be identified because the talks are private and By Greg Roumeliotis and Soyoung Kim CVC has so far prevailed over other buyout firms in the auction for Epicor, which is currently owned by private equity firm Apax Partners LLP , the people said on Monday. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.