Laura Cooper is a reporter covering beverage and tobacco companies for The Wall Street Journal in New York. Her coverage includes beverage makers, including Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, as well as ...

Jessica Mendoza: Laura, are you a soda drinker? Laura Cooper: Of course. Who doesn't drink soda, right? Jessica Mendoza: That's our colleague, Laura Cooper, who covers the beverage industry.

Enjoy. Laura Cooper: You don't want me to open my Pepsi on here? I can do it. You want to hear it? Allison Pohle: Wait. Yes. Laura Cooper: Oh my God, it's exploding. I'm covered in Pepsi over here.

The majority investment by the firm is the on-site machining and measurement services provider’s first round of outside capital.

Limited partners of the software-focused firm have signed on to the firm’s quest to raise the upper limit of its latest flagship vehicle to $10.5 billion.

The Bank of America Corp.-run auction is said to be in the late stages, with a number of private-equity firms interested in the company ...

The deal is one in a string of private-equity investments into the live ticketing space so far this year.