Sentences with phrase «private equity backer»

In February, Bertrams, the UK's second - biggest book wholesaler, was sold to private equity backer Aurelius for half the sum it originally bid for the business (which itself seemed like a knock - down price for a business with sales of more than # 200m); last week the UK's biggest high street book chain Waterstones was sold to activist investor Elliott Advisors for a sum thought to be considerably less than its Russian owner Alexander Mamut once wanted; and this week the UK's biggest printer of black and white books, Clays, with sales of # 77m, was sold to Italian printer Elcograf for # 23.8 m.

It was initially seeking a deal with a new private equity backer who could take a 51 per cent stake in Accolade and help drive its Chinese growth strategy.

He says the firm's private equity backers — Madrona Venture Group and Highland Capital Partners — bring a similar understanding of the two sectors.

• Simplr, a San Francisco - based customer service solutions firm, raised $ 8 million from Asurion and private equity backers.

Junior creditors led by Appaloosa Management remain the biggest hold - outs in the CEOC bankruptcy, and have said they have as much as $ 12 billion in claims against Caesars Entertainment and its private equity backers, Apollo Global Management LLC and TPG Capital LP.

In July, Hudson launched his own boutique law firm, MJ Hudson, using seed funding from several private equity backers — debt he anticipates will be converted to «minor stakes» when the ABS legislation takes effect next October.

Not exact matches

The only issue Cramer could find with Floor & Decor, which came public in April, was its private - equity backers.

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.

The debate is over: give the kid and the private - equity backers everything they want.

Last May, SoftBank announced it raised over $ 93 billion for the Vision Fund, the world's largest private equity fund with backers including Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, Apple Inc. and Foxconn Technology Co., formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry.

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.

Robert Wright (former CEO of NBC), Stephen Schwarzman (private equity), Robert Nederlander (of the theatre - owning family, and former general manager of the New York Yankees), Robert Kraft (packaging, and the New England Patriots), Douglas Daft (former CEO of Coca - Cola), and David Koch (one of the famous libertarian Kochs, backer of the Republican party, massive philanthropist) all winter here.

«People hear Middle Eastern backers and they assume deep pockets and dumb money,» the unaffiliated private equity investor said.