Private Equity Firms

Harvard MBAs: When Fewer Take Jobs On Wall Street, It May Indicate A Rising Stock Market

nytimes.com | Cyrus Sanati | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business


Fewer Harvard M.B.A. graduates took jobs on Wall Street this year than in the past as a result of the sharp contraction in the financial services indu...

Private Equity Firms Look To Take Over Banks

New York Times | ERIC LIPTON | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business


CAINSVILLE, Mo. -- No one seems to want to own a business in this dusty, windswept corner of rural America, population 370, with its crumbling sidewal...

Apollo IPO Ready For Liftoff

Portfolio | Megan Barnett | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business


It's easy to see how tempting it might be for Leon Black to take his private equity firm, Apollo Management, public right now. After all, if one group...

Paulson's Plan In A Nutshell

New York Times | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business


The NYT reports: The Bush administration on Monday rolled out the broadest overhaul of Wall Street regulation since the Great Depression, presenting...

Report: Clear Channel Deal Collapsing

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business


SAN ANTONIO — Shares of Clear Channel Communications Inc. plummeted in late trading Tuesday, following a report that the media company's private...

Carlyle Raises $1 B For Public Works Fund

Financial Times | Justin Baer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Carlyle Group, the private equity firm, has raised $1.15bn to fund investments in roads, bridges, airports and other public works in the US and Canada...