Private Equity

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Buyout Boom Fallout: Hunstman, Apollo Land In Court

Wall Street Journal | Susan Pulliam and Peter Lattman | Posted 09.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Huntsman, Privaty Equity Firms, Jon Huntsman, Private Equity, Leon Black, Apollo Management LP, Apollo, Business News

Jon Huntsman, chairman of Huntsman Corp., doesn't mind playing tough. He once told a hedge-fund manager that it would be his "life's purpose" to make ...

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Kohlberg Kravis IPO Coming, But It's Not Your Typical IPO

Wall Street Journal | Dennis K. Berman and Peter Lattman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Kravis IPO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, KKR Affiliate, Initial Public Offering, Ipo, KPE, Private Equity, KKR European Affiliate, Kravis, Kkr, KPE Value, KKR IPO, Henry Kravis, Business News

Today, its plan for an initial public offering reflects the troubled times roiling the investment industry: KKR is selling the shares in part to take ...

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Kohlberg Kravis IPO: If It Happens, It'll Be A More Diversified Firm

DealBook | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Initial Public Offering, Ipo, Private Equity, William Sonneborn, Kkr, Asset Management, K.K.R. IPO, Business News

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts on Monday said it had hired William Sonneborn to further develop its asset management business, in a move that The Financial T...

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Power List: The Most Powerful Private Equity Firms

Fortune | Posted 05.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Private Equity, Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Business News

The Carlyle Group: 2008 Rank: 1 2007 Rank: 3 Recent buyout fundraising: $39 billion With 1,000-plus employees, 34 offices spread across every contin...

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Filmmakers Struggle As Private Equity Funds Dry Up

New York Times | Brooke Barnes | Posted 05.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Merger, Private Equity, Sanjay Sanghoee, Business News

Last September, when Sanjay Sanghoee set about turning his first novel into a Hollywood movie, the budding filmmaker had his pick of investors. The n...

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Apollo IPO Ready For Liftoff

Portfolio | Megan Barnett | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Initial Public Offerings, Apollo Management, Nyse, Private Equity Firms, Apollo IPO, New IPOs, Leon Black, Private Equity, Apollo, Business News

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...

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Frauds R' Us: The Hank Paulson Regulatory Revue

Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Liquidity, Subprime Crisis, Paulson, Private Equity, Financial Regulation, FInancial Markets, Politics News

My skin started to quiver when our Treasury secretary, Mr. Henry "Hank" Paulson, late of Goldman Sachs, rolled out his financial markets reform package over this past weekend.

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Barry Diller Snubbed By Bono

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Bono, John Malone, Elevation Partners, Barry Diller, Private Equity, Iac, Ticketmaster, Business News

Now that Barry Diller has won his court case against John Malone, he's free to break up IAC (IACI) into 5 pieces. The problem: Convincing investors th...

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Private Equity Moguls See Fortunes Plummet

New York Times | MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Banking, U.S. Economy, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Wall Street, Private Equity Moguls, Recession Fears, Recession, Homeowners, Private Equity, Butout Firms, Investments, Blackstone Group, Business News

With their big paydays and bigger egos, private equity moguls came to symbolize an era of hyper-wealth on Wall Street. Now their fortunes are plummet...

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AIG's Debt Problems Could Land CEO In Hot Water

CNBC | Charlie Gasparino | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Credit Crisis, Aig, AIG Debt, Ceos, Martin Sullivan, American International Group, Credit Crunch, Private Equity, Business News

American International Group's disclosure that its losses from risky debt may be billions of dollars more than previously reported could eventually pu...

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Media Manuvers: The New Yorker Profiles Stephen Schwarzman, aka the 8 Billion Dollar Man

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business

Read More: The New Yorker, Blacktone Group, Private Equity, James B. Stewart, Stephen Schwarzman, Business News

Stop the presses! Big cheese financial journalist James B. Stewart has weighed in on Steve Schwarzman. In the Feb. 11 issue of The New Yorker, Stewa...

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Bronfman Flips Fifth Avenue Apartment

New York Times | Dealbook | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Fifth Avenue, Edgar Bronfman, Warner Music Group, Flippers, New York Observer, Fifth Avenue Apartments, Flipping Houses, Wmg, Central Park Views, Private Equity, Business News

Private equity bosses are constantly fighting off criticism that they are "flippers," buying companies and quickly selling them for a profit without a...

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Billionaire Schwarzman: "I'm Not Wealthy"

Wall Street Journal | Posted 02.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Billionaires, Billionaire Populism, Private Equity, Stephen Schwarzman, Wealth Denial, Business News

One of the strange side-effects of the wealth boom is the emergence of what I call "wealth denial." Today, no one seems to want to fess up to their t...

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On MLK Day, Filmmaker Takes Private Equity To Task

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Film, Martin Luther King, Brave New Films, Kkr, Gunite Plant, Private Equity, Robert Greenwald, Henry Kravis, Rockford, Politics News

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, filmmaker Robert Greenwald has released a sharp new short film on his topic-de-jour: the excesses of the private e...

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Private Equity to Rockford Workers: Because We're Swine, You Walk the Line

Kerry Candaele | Posted 12.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: War on Greed, Private Equity, Unions, Labor Unions, Private Equity Firms, Union Strikes, Henry Kravis, Politics News

Rockford, Illinois, deserves a second look this holiday season, as 137 men and women walk a picket line in sub-zero weather.

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When Private-Equity Barbarians Take Hostages

David Sirota | Posted 12.14.2007 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Hedge Funds, Amt, Private Equity, Alternative Minimum Tax, Charles Schumer, Business News

Private equity executives and their allies in Congress have started taking hostages, first potentially delaying tax refunds, and now threatening to charge the $50 billion price of the AMT fix to the next generation.

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Why We Need A War On Greed

Cliff Schecter | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: War on Greed, Brave New Films, Gordon Gekko, Cliff Schecter, Paul Krugman, Private Equity, Henry Kravis, Brave New Films' War on Greed, Politics News

Brave New Films is declaring a War On Greed, and unlike the Bush administration, when we declare war on something, we actually plan and send the appropriate resources.

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George Bush and Lies About The Economy

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Cafta, Class Warfare, Dollar Value, Free Trade, China, Nafta, Private Equity, Politics News

The Wall Street Journal has an interview today with George Bush that gives great insight into the disinformation, lies and, charitably, cognitive d...

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