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In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

The chairman and CEO of private equity giant Blackstone, with $ 434 billion in assets under management, also downplayed the impact of the Fed acting more forcefully on increasing the cost of borrowing money.

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.

LONDON, May 2 - World stocks inched higher on Wednesday after two days of losses but remained pinned down by the dollar's recent surge and expectations that a U.S. Forecast - beating results from U.S. tech giant Apple helped lift shares in technology shares worldwide, but with investor focus firmly on the Fed, equity futures were tipping only a marginally firmer...

The retailer was saddled in debt, some $ 4.9 billion, left from a 2005 leveraged buyout for about $ 6.6 billion by private equity giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain Capital, as well as real estate trust Vornado.

While reaching pay equity is a huge accomplishment, the tech giant admitted that it still has a long way to go to create a workforce that's more balanced in terms of gender and race.

Others that are said to be interested include CVC Capital Partners, a private - equity fund that was spun off from financial giant Citicorp in the 1990s.

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).

His organization runs one of the most visible and high - profile private equity funds in the world — industry observers put it in the same class as those run by legendary buyout giants Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts and Blackstone.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

He also shed his interests in funds run by the private equity giant Blackstone Group — whose chief executive, Stephen A. Schwarzman, is an economic adviser to Mr. Trump — as well as BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- U.S. private equity giant KKR & Co LP moved to bolster its presence in Australia's lucrative mortgage market on Wednesday, joining a rush of players hungry for a slice of a property boom even as the sector shows early signs of slowing.

Search engine giant Google has launched Google Capital, a fresh growth equity fund which will invest in a range of industries...

Today, Romanow's Clearbanc, which provides revenue - based financing to online businesses, announced a new program with Facebook that will give the social media giant's five million online merchants across Canada and the U.S. access to up to $ 500,000 in financing without having to give up any equity or fill out any paperwork or even undergo a credit check.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters)- Saudi oil giant Aramco will buy an equity stake in Malaysian firm Petronas» major refining and petrochemical project, the companies said on Tuesday, pumping in $ 7 billion in its biggest downstream investment outside the kingdom.

Put together with the North Sea assets acquired from Shell last year in a $ US3 billion deal, Santos» portfolio would catapult Harbour — managed by private equity giant EIG Global Energy Partners — to a size roughly on a par with Woodside Petroleum or British - listed Dana Gas.

Nemaska Lithium agreement with private equity giant Orion Mine Finance comes a week after $ 100B Japanese technology fund bought a stake in Quebec - based firm.

Darrell Lea is an underdog in a battle against global confectionery giants but some private equity muscle is being flexed.

Shareholders who wish to participate in the «ongoing upside of the company» will receive shares valued in excess of $ 14.25 as part of the deal, according to the private equity giant.

Goldman Sachs raised $ 21.5 billion in 88 equity deals in 2013, including the $ 2.1 billion IPO of social media giant Twitter in November, which was a higher value than any other investment bank, according to Dealogic.

WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD), a provider of health information services that is mostly known for its online platform webmd.com, and Medscape.com confirmed Monday morning it has agreed to sell itself to the private equity giant KKR for $ 66.50 per share in cash.

Dell, the pioneering computer company that has struggled to match innovative mobile products from Apple, Google, and Samsung, is in talks to go private with help from prominent tech private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and software giant Microsoft, according to multiple reports.

Ant Financial Services Group, the Chinese fintech giant, is planning a funding round that could fetch a valuation similar to the world's biggest and oldest banks: The digital payment company is raising as much as $ 5 billion in equity that may value it at more than $ 100 billion, according to Reuters.

«He loves winning, and he loves money — but it's just a scorecard to show he's recognised value and won,» says finance billionaire Leon Black, Icahn's investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 1980s before co-founding private equity giant Apollo Global Management.

Updated, 8:51 p.m. The surprise departure of a top JPMorgan Chase executive for a giant private equity firm underscores how financial regulations are forcing a shift in the balance of power on Wall Street.

US drinks giant The Coca - Cola Co will invest $ US500 million in Indonesia in return for a 29.4 per cent equity stake in Coca - Cola Amatil's Indonesian business.

Private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is in the prime position to win a recommendation from the board of Treasury Wine Estates after lodging a bid significantly higher than rival firm TPG.

Since stepping down from running British food giant Premier Foods Plc in June last year he has worked with a string of private equity firms including KKR which is now circling Treasury Wine after approaching the board in April with an offer of $ 4.70 per share.

Private equity giant TPG has cut the price of shares in chicken group Ingham's, and will hold on to a bigger stake in the group than first expected,

The private equity interest in the Vintage Cellars business comes just weeks after US - based giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts launched a $ 3.05 billion proposal to buy out the struggling Treasury Wine Estates.

Food giant Unilever saw net profits grow 10 % to $ 2.235 bn in the first half of 2011, with its brand equity allowing it to weather severe raw materials price hikes in some cases.

The prospect of another bidder emerging from the ranks of global private equity firms is also high, with US - based giant Carlyle Group known to have quietly sounded out former Coca - Cola Amatil managing director Terry Davis about his appetite for running a privately backed Treasury in the past few weeks.

Global private equity giant TPG, operated in Australia by Ben Gray and Simon Harle, is behind the second offer, sources said.

Clinton recently was a featured attraction at private equity giant KKR's annual U.S. investor meeting in California, where she fielded questions on a range of topics from firm co-founder Henry Kravis.

«Everybody who plays leaves with something,» says retired New York Giants linebacker Harry Carson in the documentary «Blood Equity» but, sadly, he doesn't mean a glorious pension or athletic pride.

Giants owner Philip Halperin runs the Silver Giving Foundation, a philanthropy he created with money he amassed while working as a partner in the Weston Presidio private equity firm.

Former Macmillan president, and now senior advisor at media investment giant Providence Equity Partners Brian Napack provides an investor's view of the rapidly changing ownership of publishing assets in a discussion with Michael Cader.

Microsoft and B&N announced their partnership and the formation of the new corporation in 2012, under which the software giant invested $ 300 million for a 17.6 percent equity stake in the company valued at $ 1.7 billion overall.

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Where the traditional second mortgage gives the homeowner money in one lump sum the home equity line of credit allows homeowners to use the equity in their home like a giant credit card.

All very well, I confess I've been through all that myself professionally, but always felt frustrated at having giant hoards of Cash on hand to invest — in an ideal world, I knew the best thing for shareholders and Return on Equity was to have zero Cash and just come in each day and draw down / pay down on a Debt / CP facility.

HNA acquired 53.7 million Park Hotels shares valued at around $ 1.4 billion from private equity giant Blackstone Group last year, alongside a 25 - percent stake in Hilton.

I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show how the growing coal (and natural gas) greenhouse - gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.

A Record Buyout Turns Sour for Investors Struck at the peak of the buyout boom five years ago, the $ 45 billion acquisition of the Texas energy giant TXU — the biggest leveraged buyout in history — has been a painful investment for its private equity owners.

DTZ's owners, led by global private equity giant TPG, will also tip in equity.

Today, Google announced that it's getting into the wind power game in a big way — according to the New York Times, the search engine giant is taking 37.5 % of the equity for a $ 5 billion project to create a 350 mile transmission «backbone» for future offshore wind farms on the East Coast.

All eyes are on China's new economy, and winner of TMT Firm of the Year, Han Kun Law Offices, has positioned itself perfectly at the heart of the nation's TMT sector, sweeping up key investment and regulatory work and playing to its core strengths in M&A, private equity, venture capital and funds to help grow domestic startups and internet giants alike.

Private equity giant The Carlyle Group announced this week it would take public Denver - based data center owner and operator CoreSite Realty in a $ 270 million IPO.

He also acted as Canadian counsel to private equity giant TPG Capital in its $ 3.1 bn acquisition of a 51 % stake in Intel Security.