Sentences with phrase «as private equity firms»

Single - family investors played a high - profile role in the housing recovery, as private equity firms like Blackstone bought hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes and turned them into rental properties.

Rodrigo advises and counsels public and private companies as well as private equity firms and their portfolio companies in a wide range of transactions including acquisitions, full sales,...

Latham & Watkins LLP advises a high - calibre client base, which predominantly includes active funds such as CVC, HgCapital and Triton in the large - cap arena, as well as private equity firms such as Chequers Capital, Silverfleet, H.I.G. and Quadriga who concentrate on mid-sized transactions.

Talk of the turnaround comes as private equity firms test Coles's willingness to break up its liquor division.

Bankers and lawyers see no signs of merger and acquisition activity abating in the next six months, as private equity firms step up to make further deals and as infrastructure - related transactions continue to attract interest.

Bankers and lawyers expect the final four months of 2014 to yield solid mergers and acquisitions activity, as private equity firms continue to deploy cash and local companies seek to buy earnings growth.

Verizon, as well as some private equity firms, met with Microsoft last month to talk about potential funding for a bid, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

As long as private equity firms are unwilling to belong to any club that would have them as members, Dell won't have much company in the mega-deal society.

This week, Devon Energy (DVN.N) said it sold some shale - gas assets in Texas for $ 553 million to a buyer that Tudor Pickering Holt energy analysts identified as a private equity firm.

Australia's second - largest wine company, Accolade Wines, which owns brands including Hardys, Leasingham, Grant Burge and Banrock Station, is set to return to the stock exchange in a $ 1 billion - plus listing in the first half of 2017 as private equity firm CHAMP exits after six years of ownership.

CHAMP Pulls Trigger on $ 1B Accolade Wines IPO Australia's second - largest wine company, Accolade Wines, which owns brands including Hardy's, Leasingham, Grant Burge and Banrock Station, is set to return to the stock exchange in a $ 1 billion - plus listing in the first half of 2017 as private equity firm CHAMP exits after six years of ownership...

Warren Buffett has received a lot of criticism for teaming up with the 3G team because of their background as a private equity firm that focuses on cost cutting through layoffs and other initiatives.

UK duo win lead roles as private equity firm gobbles up a slice of the Argentine steak restaurant group

Not exact matches

NEW YORK — A private equity firm emerged Tuesday as the winning bidder for the Weinstein Co., the studio forced into bankruptcy by the sexual misconduct scandal that brought down Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

May 3 - Australian gas producer Santos Ltd said on Thursday it expects to complete talks with suitor Harbour Energy within a few weeks, as the U.S. private equity - backed firm finalises due diligence on its $ 10.4 billion takeover offer.

BlackRock and Neuberger Berman Group are among firms that California Public Employees» Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, might look to partner with as it seeks help to manage its $ 40 billion private equity portfolio, people familiar with the matter said last month.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

Private equity firms have recognized for a while now that they can't just expect management teams to conduct business as usual at the current price environments to deliver the types of returns that people expect.

Last July, Leesa announced its partnership with new Denver - based private equity firm TitleCard Capital, which partners with celebrities such as Jimmy Kimmel and New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist.

Schwartz, a partner at 3G who joined as CFO in 2010 when the private equity firm acquired a majority stake in the fast - food giant.

Before she was sworn in as head of the SBA in 2009, Mills was president of the private - equity firm MMP Group, which invested in businesses in the consumer products, food, textiles and industrial components industries.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

Many have put up their own shares or stock of companies they own as collateral for their loans and are increasingly copying the convoluted fund - raising strategies employed by American hedge funds and private equity firms in financing their global expansion drives.

The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, reported on Tuesday that Hunt Valley, Maryland - based telecom Sinclair Broadcast Group has expressed an interest in buying the weather - focused television network from an ownership group that includes private equity firms Bain Capital and Blackstone Group, as well as Comcast's NBCUniversal.

On the other hand, he has partnered on multiple deals — including Heinz / Kraft Foods and Tim Hortons / Burger King — with 3G Capital, a Brazilian private equity firm that Buffett has taken pains to characterize as something else.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds to investors, as the regulator boosts its scrutiny of the industry, according to people familiar with the matter.

April 2 - General Electric Co's healthcare unit said on Monday it would sell its information technology business to private equity firm Veritas Capital for $ 1.05 billion in cash as it sharpens its focus on smart diagnostics and connected devices.

Private - equity acquisitions of retailers have become increasingly rare, as the investment firms worry about increasing headwinds facing the industry and their portfolio companies struggle with the debt burden left behind from leveraged buyouts.

Singapore is firming as a significant source of capital for Perth - based property players, as developers and private equity fund managers from the South - East Asian country increasingly look for Western Australian assets to add to their investment portfolios.

Hadley Mullin, a partner at private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners, says the gender imbalance in the investment community does not make sense — especially at firms that invest in consumer brands, as women drive household spending.

But the firm began to turn things around in 2013, as it simplified its sourcing operations and offloaded some of its troubled brands to private equity firm Cerberus.

Before joining private equity firm Capital Advisors as an executive vice president, she had worked at a couple of tech companies — including as CFO of General Magic, a spin - off from Apple (AAPL) that closed in 2002 — and in all of those positions her job was to obsess over quarterly results, meeting demands of investors.

As a leading venture capital and private equity firm, Tracy is used to backing innovation where he believes it will turn a profit.

He notes that Clayton Dubilier & Rice, the private equity firm where he serves as a senior advisor, is now funding 20 students in his MBA program, with a second cohort to start in January.

In 2009, Fitness World got a celebrity - branded makeover, after it was acquired by Steve Nash Sports Club as well as two American private - equity firms.

AMD spokesperson Drew Prairie says that this practice is common among private equity firms, listing the boards of Spansion, Avago, Jazz Pharmaceutical, and Zhone as examples.

That aspect of him bubbled into public view with Compuware, the Detroit - based business software maker that eventually sold to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $ 2.4 billion in 2014 as a result of Elliott's campaign.

Private equity firm TPG [TPG.UL] invested $ 750 million in the New Berlin, New York - based company last year to save it from the cash crunch arising as a result of the problems at Idaho.

As for family leave, Elliott expects companies to go the route of private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, which recently extended paid leave for new parents, and announced it would let employees take both their babies and their caregivers on business trips — on the company's dime.

In some fields, such as private equity, female - owned firms make up a disproportionately large share of the top quartile earners.

• Adinah Shackleton has joined private equity firm Permira as director of environmental, social and governance (ESG).

Participants in the latest round include Allegis Capital, a venture capital firm, which led the raise, as well as Blackstone Group (BX), the private equity firm, and angel investor Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of sales - tool giant Salesforce (CRM).

This is interesting as more and more private equity firms have increased their scrutiny of public & private companies they invest in or might invest in to decrease their exposure to areas that could bring controversy.

The bigger issue, of course, is the barrier to entry for individual investors: Private equity firms typically have a minimum investment of $ 5 million or more, and at one point, the best firms were so popular, they were demanding as much as $ 250 million.

Robbins is founder and chief executive officer of Blue Harbour Group L.P. Previously he was a partner at major private equity firms such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and General Atlantic.

Insight first contacted Australia - based Campaign Monitor back in 2008, as the result of an internal program that cold - calls possible investment targets (similar to what private equity firms like Summit Partners and TA Associates have).

After naming long - time fashion industry veteran Paula Schnieder as its new CEO last week, the company is now evaluating a proposed takeover bid, reportedly from the private equity firm Irving Place Capital.

The New York Times reported on the weekend, citing sources, that BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis, who stepped down as co-chief executive in 2011, has approached two U.S. private equity firms about making a possible bid.

He estimates that private equity firms have made more than $ 2 billion dollars in transaction fees over the last 10 years without being properly registered as broker dealers.

The shortlist comprises mainly large companies and big private equity firms including TPG Capital, and excludes many small companies that proposed some kind of combination, such as privately held Yellow Pages owner YP, the people said this week.