Sentences with phrase «like private equity companies»

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Lured by the prospect of a steal, would - be entrepreneurs have been joined in the bidding by companies interested in expanding through strategic acquisitions and private equity groups like SeaFort seeking solid «old economy» assets.

Most private equity investment companies don't pay REIT - like dividends, however.

To finance the company's deals, the company also behaved largely like a private equity firm, relying on debt and joint ventures with real estate investors.

Large companies like Twitter and Facebook have set - up shop here, a whole slew of startups are popping up and VCs and private equity firms invested $ 7.9 billion in companies located in Chile last year.

Top tech investor Paul Meeks told «Squawk Box» on Wednesday, that might be in the form of an offer from private equity, since he doesn't see obvious candidates — other technology companies like Microsoft or Alibaba — as interested.

One interesting source of statistics is a new Web site, www.privateraise.com, that tracks all kinds of deals in the capital marketplace, including the PIPEs (private investments in public equities) that attract funds that otherwise might have gone to private companies like HealthHelp.

Broader investment parameters, specialty niches, and other new developments have opened the private - equity door to many companies whose owners, up to now, have felt like wallflowers at the money - market ball.

«In troubled times like these, public companies turn to the private - equity markets because they don't have the same financing opportunities that they might otherwise possess, either by selling more stock in the secondary markets or by borrowing whatever money they need from banks,» he says.

Those included stock in companies like Bank of America and Kraft Heinz, as well as stakes in a variety of private equity and hedge funds.

It is now in the final stretch as bidders like Verizon, Quicken Loans and several private equity players offer about $ 4 billion for the company minus its lucrative Asian assets.

«The equity investor, New World Ventures, is a leading Chicago venture capital / private equity firm that backs companies with sustainable technological advantages like SMS.

Indeed, according to Graham Elton, partner with Bain & Company and head of European private equity at the firm, many now go so far as to maintain full - blown «shadow portfolios» of companies they like, drawing up detailed business plans long before they ever come up for sale so they are ready to pounce.

As strategic public players in the US continue to see limited growth making large scale M&A difficult, private equity players have filled some of the gap, particularly for enterprise companies with SAAS - like models.

The deal is a huge one by any standard — bigger than Walmart's $ 3.3 billion deal for Jet.com last year — and especially for a retail company like PetSmart, which was itself valued at only $ 8.7 billion when private equity investors took it over in 2015.

The private - equity firm, which is focused exclusively on the restaurant industry and has worked with brands like Taco Bell and Denny's, said the partnership will recapitalize the company and accelerate new store growth across the Midwest and beyond.

Looks like private equity and companies are bidding.

In an ironic twist, reforming teacher pension plans would help companies like Vanguard that offer cheap, mass - market index funds, and it would seriously harm hedge funds and private equity firms.

A self - directed IRA is a special account set up with a company, called a custodian, that will allow you to invest in other assets like buying real estate property, private equity and tax lien certificates.

It's a private - equity like company that uses a lot of the same tools to generate long - term value.

This is not like your typical private equity firm here, which buys a company to put into a limited life fund which they will sell or take public again later.

Long - term lending would have to be other entities in the economy, such as insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, private individuals, foreign lenders, mortgage REITs, and banks funded by matching sources like CDs, bonds, and equity.

Institutional lenders like banks and credit unions mainly rely on credit and income to approve or reject loan applications but private companies refer to equity.

It may simply reflect an economically sensitive stock, or a company that's directly / indirectly leveraged to the market itself — like brokers, banks, asset managers, private equity firms, etc..

Though Buffett was known in the 70s and 80s as a public equity manager inside a public company, he increasingly bought private companies like:

But the list might include gold, silver, stocks of mining companies that focus on these two metals, hedge funds, mutual funds that endeavor to act like hedge funds, timber, farmland, private equity funds that buy privately held companies, residential and commercial rental properties, real estate investment trusts, commodity funds that buy everything from agriculture to energy futures contracts, stocks of energy and natural - resource companies, venture capital funds that invest in startup companies, and even bitcoin.

Those included stock in companies like Bank of America and Kraft Heinz, as well as stakes in a variety of private equity and hedge funds.

Automated Insights — the Durham, North Carolina - based startup backed by the Associated Press, Samsung and Steve Case that has built technology to automatically take raw data and translate it into narratives that look like they've been written by a human — has been acquired by the $ 14 billion private equity firm Vista Equity Partners and portfolio company STATS, which focuses on sports data anaequity firm Vista Equity Partners and portfolio company STATS, which focuses on sports data anaEquity Partners and portfolio company STATS, which focuses on sports data analysis.

Banking Graduate Schemes — This involves working in investment banking for companies like Goldman Sachs and Bank of America in areas such as trading, hedge funds and private equity.

«Private equity firms are trying to build platforms to sell to big companies like Almost Home and Health South,» Phillips says.

I like this specialty mREIT for the following reasons: (1) the model is simple and the company is focused on one platform of senior lending, (2) the company is focused on a floating - rate model that insulates from rate increases, (3) there is an attractive market opportunity, (4) the company can leverage off of the Blackstone RE businesses and its affiliation with the largest private equity real estate business in the world.

Some of the company's fans would like to blame its lackluster performance on the tight financial controls exercised by American Apparel's private equity stakeholder Lion Capital, which is reportedly preventing the chain from investing in new technology and equipment.