Are Private Equity Buyouts The Devil's Work?Some Interview with private equityAs part of blogging the divestment of Reed Business Information from Reed Elsevier I have been lucky enough to interview several senior private equity partners. You can read those here (http://divestmentwatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-with-private-equity-part-one.html) and here (http://divestmentwatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-interview-with-private-equity.html)One key view that they both held...
DOVER, Del. -- A Delaware judge ruled that the agreement to buy Huntsman Corp. should go on even though "substantial obstacles" exist for the buyer, according to details from the late Monday ruling. Vice Chancellor Stephen Lamb ordered Hexion, an affiliate of private equity firm Apollo Management...
BOSTON -- TA Associates, a leading growth private equity and buyout firm, today announced it has completed a C$98 million investment in Radialpoint, a Montreal-based provider of managed digital home security and care services to the world's largest Broadband Service Providers BSPs. Proceeds from the investment will be used to...
Triton Pacific Capital Partners, LLC, awell established private equity firm headquartered in Los Angeles, todayannounced the addition of two new Associate Directors, David Schiller andPeter McFarlane. While many financial firms are constrained by the weakness in the economyand the chaos on Wall Street, the environment for middle market buyouts isvibrant....
Jeffrey J. Singer to Join Southwest Securities, Inc. as Executive Vice President DALLAS, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jeffrey J. Singer has joined Southwest Securities, Inc., a subsidiary of SWS Group, Inc., as Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Finance. Southwest Securities' Corporate Finance group...
LA JOLLA, Calif. -- PCG Asset Management PCG AM, a leading private equity consultant, announced today that Gregg Wurster has joined the firm as a Senior Associate. Gregg will primarily focus on investments in venture, growth equity and middle-market buyout funds, as well as leading strategic initiatives at...
THE PUBLIC'S PERCEPTION of private-equity firms is all wrong--at least according to a new study from Ernst & Young. Often viewed as hard-hearted financial engineers who pile up profits by slashing expenses, P-E kingpins are criticized for their lack of transparency, their much-debated tax status, and, of course,...
Conference Focused on the Trends in the Private Equity Industry Is to Be Held in September in NYC NEW YORK -- Stephen Wares, Vice President of Business Development for Nair & Co, is hosting a workshop on Opportunities & Risks of Investing in BRIC at the 15th Annual...
TPG Capital, the buyout group that abandoned its attempts to rescue Bradford & Bingley earlier in the year, has pulled out of the race to buy Paragon, the ailing buy-to-let mortgage lender. Sources close to the Texan private equity group have confirmed to The Independent on Sunday...
NEW YORK -- Moelis & Company announced today that Greg Share has joined the firm as a Partner in the Private Equity Business of Moelis Capital Partners, based in New York. Mr. Share has 11 years of private equity investment experience in the United States and Europe, having made a...
As a boy on the rough streets of Washington Heights, N.Y., 46-year-old Marcos Rodriguez saw his father toil as a hotel waiter to raise his kids. His dad, once a successful Havana businessman, had lost his land to the Cuban regime. Vowing to honor his parents' hard work,...
This past week's news from www.ocbj.com and other sources TOP STORIES Mission Viejo-based U.S. Education Corp. is being bought by vocational school operator DeVry Inc. of Illinois for $290 million. U.S. Education runs forprofit schools under the Apollo College and Western Career College names. The company's schools have...
Byline: HENRYK ZIENTEK MANAGERS at Crown Paints are set to buy the business from its Dutch owner for pounds 70m, it is claimed. Akzo Nobel is selling the brand in the UK and Ireland as part of its deal with the European Commission to gain approval...
With $700 Million under Management, Evergreen Continues to Be the Largest Private Equity Fund in Washington State SEATTLE -- Evergreen Pacific Partners ("Evergreen"), Washington state's largest private equity fund, announced today it has closed its second fund at $425 million. Evergreen now manages $700 million through its first...
Clear Channel Communications Inc., the largest U.S. radio broadcaster, said Wednesday that Bain Capital Partners LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP. have completed their $17.9 billion buyout of the company. The buyers valued the transaction at $24 billion, including debt, Clear Channel said. The closing of...
LOS ANGELES & NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- B. Riley & Co., LLC ("B. Riley") announced that it has successfully completed the corporate sale of Silvue Technologies Group, Inc. ("Silvue"), a majority owned subsidiary of Compass Group Diversified Holdings, LLC ("Compass" or "CODI") to Tokyo, Japan based Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. for...
BETHESDA, Md., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Capital, Ltd. , the only private equity fund and alternative asset manager in the S&P 500, announced today an expansion and realignment of its senior management team, effective August 1. Steven W. Burge will assume the newly established position of President,...
Four groups of “new power brokers”—Asian governments, oil exporters, hedge funds and private-equity firms—kept gaining clout in global markets last year. A quick look at their growing influence worldwide: 11.5 Trillions of dollars in combined financial assets held by the four power brokers in 2007, up 22...
Byline: HENRYK ZIENTEK DEMAND for businesses is running high in the Yorkshire deals market, it emerged today. Figures from business advisory firm Deloitte and Barclays Private Equity showed buy-outs in the pounds 100m-plus range totalled pounds 1bn for the first half of the year against pounds...
LaSalle Investment Management is to establish a Special Situations team for the UK and Continental Europe. The new team will primarily be responsible for evaluating potential corporate level acquisitions, structured debt and equity opportunities and will be targeting the higher risk / return end of the investment spectrum....
Articles 2008-07-16
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