Sentences with phrase «equity firms seemed»

Not exact matches

Even if transaction fees are a minor factor in the financial troubles of overly indebted companies, private - equity firms often seem reluctant to disclose them.

UA's future seemed uncertain after Sony, Comcast and a group of private equity firms acquired its parent MGM in 2004.

Though the brokerage firm benefits from rising equity indices, higher trading and investment activity and a strong brokerage franchise that helps in attracting trillions of client dollars, Charles Schwab seems to be priced to perfection with a P / B ratio of 3.60.

Poor hedge fund performance over the past few years also seems to have (unfairly) tainted the private equity firms, while lingering fears of a fresh bear market has compressed multiples in such a (potentially) high - beta sector... it's been a painful trend to fight / outlast.

However, when it comes to asset management firms, all investors seem to focus on is AUM growth, plus the ongoing switch from active to passive management (despite its basic irrelevance for private equity firms), so the slowdown / halt in FIG's AUM growth in the past year (or so) has been punished severely.

Many law firms today seem to be run as if they expect to wind down operations and cash out their equity shareholders in about five years» time, leaving leadership voids, unfunded retirement plans, and unmet mentorship needs behind them.

I see nothing said here about what seems to me to be the central traditional purpose of a partnership structure: the desire to apportion net earnings in agreed proportions, — as organized by the partnership agreement, — from year to year, rather than to structure earnings as stated sums payable by way of salary (which of course would be the default structure if the firm were owned by equity investors).

As Knights CEO David Beech told ABA Journal: «Having been in private equity, it seemed obvious to me that running a law firm through an equity partnership structure was dysfunctional and the potential opportunity was significant.»

Moskovits, the head of development firm Heritage Equity Partners, is in a vanguard of real estate entrepreneurs betting on offices in a part of Brooklyn that can't seem to build residences fast enough.