IndyMac Bancorp, one of the largest banks to fail as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis, is close to being sold to a consortium of private equit...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.14.2009 | Business
The battle over the bailout of some segments of the US auto industry has become increasingly defined in terms of class, but this hides the fact that the same type of players will benefit from both bailouts.
Wall Street Journal | Susan Pulliam and Peter Lattman | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business
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 ...
Wall Street Journal | Dennis K. Berman and Peter Lattman | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
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 ...
DealBook | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business
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...
Fortune | Posted 05.27.2008 | Business
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...
New York Times | Brooke Barnes | Posted 05.27.2008 | Business
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...
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...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business
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...
New York Times | MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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...
CNBC | Charlie Gasparino | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
American International Group's disclosure that its losses from risky debt may be billions of dollars more than previously reported could eventually pu...
New York Times | Dealbook | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Private equity bosses are constantly fighting off criticism that they are "flippers," buying companies and quickly selling them for a profit without a...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
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...
New York Times | Zachery Kouwe | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business