Sentences with phrase «of private equity companies»

There are a handful of private equity companies advertising third mortgage loan programs for the purposes of cash out, real estate investments, and much more.

Shortly after these investments, shares of private equity companies plummeted.

(Reuters)- Hostess Brands LLC, the maker of Twinkies and Ding Dongs, said on Tuesday it will be bought in a $ 725 million deal by an affiliate of private equity company Gores Group, which will then take it public.

«There's a lot of equity out there, but my concern is that the debt markets are currently schizophrenic,» said Dave Johnson, president and CEO of Aimbridge Hospitality, on a panel of private equity company executives, a group of investors that partially plugged the transactions gap in the middle of last year when lodging REITs backed away from the market.

Not exact matches

The much - anticipated international listing of Saudi Aramco — the world's largest oil company — is likely to be delayed until 2019, but that decision makes sense given that oil prices are expected to head to $ 80 per barrel, a private equity investor said.

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.

Private - equity firm Lantern Capital is the winning bidder for substantially all the assets of The Weinstein Company.

• ICP Construction, a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, acquired Pli - Dek Systems, a Murrieta, Calif. - based maker of speciality coatings for the building industry.

• NBK Capital Partners, the Dubai - based private equity and real estate investment arm of Watani Investment Company, raised $ 75 million for its real estate fund.

Bayless, who specializes in later - stage private - equity placement, says, «Origin Group allows larger companies to utilize the advantages of being small and flexible in order to attack problems created by their bigness.»

The company engineered two three - month loans, totaling $ 300,000, from a private party — «a friend of a friend,» says Anderson — who required the owners to put up 10 % of their equity as collateral and make principal and interest payments of $ 75,000 a month.

The trend isn't surprising, «given how much everyone complains about the burden of being a public company and how much money is swirling around the private equity landscape,» according to Bulger Partners managing director Doug Melsheimer.

Global Opportunities is a fund investing in the debt and equity of private and public companies worldwide.

• Berkley Capital, W. R. Berkley Corporation's (NYSE: WRB) private equity arm, acquired a majority stake in The Crypton Companies, a Bloomfield Hills, Mich. provider of performance fabrics in the contract, home furnishings and apparel markets.

According to Bloomberg, the private equity firm is purchasing 7.5 % of Masan Nutri - Science, the company's meat - producing business, for $ 150 million, which values the unit at $ 2 billion.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that an investor group consisting of venture capital and private equity firms are combining resources to make a bid to acquire the Internet phone company from eBay.

But do the benefits of owning a private company get passed on to retail investors who own publicly listed private equity businesses?

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.

Gapstow Capital Partners» CJA Private Equity Financial Restructuring Master Fund I, LP holds 9.8 % of the company pre-offering, and Wolfson Equities holds about 6.3 %.

What I have learned from many years of working with tech - enabled growth companies; on both sides of mergers and acquisitions; and angel, private equity and venture capital investments, is that accretion of IP value is the key element to supporting overall enterprise value — representing scalability in phases of rapid growth and supporting attractive multiples during the fundraising and exit phases.

A head of one of the largest U.S. private equity companies said a geopolitical surprise is the only thing for markets to worry about in the next two years.

The firm manages $ 25 billion in assets of venture capitalists, private equity fund managers, chief executives, and entrepreneurs who founded companies that went public or received private equity funding.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

Private - equity firm Lantern Capital is the winning bidder for substantially all the assets of The Weinstein Company, the TV and film studio that filed for bankruptcy after co-founder Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault, The Weinstein Company said on Tuesday.

At a time when a stock market rally has made private equity firms reluctant to take companies private for fear of overpaying, the deal illustrates how activist investors have the potential to drive corporate boards to explore such deals and accept a price that makes a leveraged buyout possible.

So private equity firms need to use their balance sheet skills and they have to be more ruthless in wringing every last dollar of synergy out of the purchase for a company that they possibly can.

Local company Prairie Mining has raised $ 15 million from UK - based CD Capital for the development of its Lublin coal project, with the potential for the private equity fund to invest a further $ 68 million.

Recently, the company allied with the private equity arm of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, which will help finance the roll - up strategy.

For a private equity fund, that repeat customer allows it to use debt in its purchase of the company.

But since the private equity products will be reserved for wealthy clients, the fate of the company will depend on the performance of his conventional listed funds, which will bear close resemblance to the AIC products investors ended up rejecting.

The house was sold to its next - door neighbor, Daren Metropoulos, a principal of the private - equity firm Metropoulos & Co. and a former co-CEO of Pabst Brewing Company.

BRVM is also in talks with private equity funds including ECP, Tunisia's Africinvest, and Mauritian group AFIG Funds, to encourage them to list companies on the exchange as part of their exit strategies for assets, Amenounve said.

The stability and certainty of the company's activities are attractive to a lender; the strong customer base combined with the potential to grow make the company attractive to the private equity fund.

Buffett, on his part, has disdained private equity's method of investing, which often adds value to a company by piling on debt, and slashing expenses before turning it back on the market.

Starting Tuesday, the crowdfunding platform will begin taking advantage of a securities rule put in place last May that allows anyone, not just accredited investors, to invest in private companies in exchange for equity.

The private equity firm will buy the remains of the company for $ 310 million plus the assumption of about $ 115 million in debt.

Daniel Lamarre, president and CEO of Cirque du Soleil, talks about how private equity firm TPG is supporting growth at the entertainment company.

Whitman's continued slimming of HPE has stoked talk that it could now be an attractive acquisition target for private equity companies that have been emboldened to spend big money on technology providers.

It's possible that large private equity firms are more willing to consider big buyouts of struggling enterprise companies in light of the blockbuster Dell and EMC deal, a complex transaction involving Dell raising $ 45 billion in debt financing to help carry it through.

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.

Private equity firm Roark will buy the company for $ 157 per share, representing a premium of 7.2 percent to the restaurant's Monday's close.

His prior experience includes private equity funding of start - up telecommunications and Internet services companies, as well as strategic and financial planning, mergers and acquisitions, and managing finance and accounting activities for both domestic and international businesses in the telecommunications and Internet services sectors.

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen in July, investors at private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoil.

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Private equity firms have been keen investors in businesses that help companies cut costs by outsourcing large parts of their administrative functions, since such operations can generate strong cash flows.

As it turned out, however, there was a bonus that I discovered during the process of selling a majority stake in the company to Allied Capital, our new private equity partners.

The food industry is not a small one, and many private equity firms and other capital providers have a great deal of capital invested in portfolio companies in this industry.

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.

Private equity fund Waterwood led the round although every existing backer, including Sequoia, Pitango, Lazarus, Silicon Valley Bank and Globespan Capital Partners also participated, said Dani Golan, founder and CEO of the Needham, Mass. - based company.

So when Daren Metropoulos bought the 12 - bedroom house in 2016, it was the private equity firm Rizvi — through a shell company called «Mansion Holdings» — on the other side of the $ 100 million deal, according to the public records.