Sentences with phrase «private equity firms who»

But some argue there's another, less - well - known threat, in the form of private equity firms who have bought a number of major retail chains in recent years.

Triple Seven Group is a London based Private Equity firm who specialise in investments purely within the Recruitment industry.

Not exact matches

Founder Zach Goldstein, an investment banker who formerly worked at JPMorgan and a private equity firm in Chicago, was frustrated with the quality of other lounge clothes on the market that he didn't feel comfortable wearing outside his house.

Folsom, an American who worked for Bain & Co. in Tokyo after college before founding one of the first private equity firms in Japan, hired the biggest Japanese law firm and petitioned the court to change the bankruptcy to a so - called «civil rehabilitation.»

Business owners who start to do it usually find it eye - opening, rewarding, and even addictive, says Brendan Anderson, co-founder and managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Cleveland.

The strategic review will be headed by Timothy Dattels, who joined BlackBerry's board last year and is a senior partner at TPG Capital, one of the world's largest private equity firms.

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.

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.

«I think about markets,» said Ms. Ripley, a longtime investor - relations professional who has worked in both banks and private equity firms.

Richard Baker, who ran the private equity firm NRDC Equity Partners that bought Hudson's Bay and took it public, has long controlled Hudson's Bay like a private equity equity firm NRDC Equity Partners that bought Hudson's Bay and took it public, has long controlled Hudson's Bay like a private equity Equity Partners that bought Hudson's Bay and took it public, has long controlled Hudson's Bay like a private equity equity owner.

In 2000 these were LBO firms (now private equity) who were envious of their private market cousins, the VCs.

«No matter what they do in their careers — go off to a private equity firm, to consulting, go work for a big company, be in the marketing unit at Merck — they're almost certain to be involved in launching new businesses or new products, or working with people who are,» Eisenmann says.

Last fall Quimby, who'd bought out Shavitz when he retired, struck a deal to sell 80 % of the company to AEA Investors, a private - equity firm, for more than $ 175 million.

The buyer, who will seek financing for the deal, was U.S. private equity firm Indigo Partners.

Chief creative officer Wende Zomnir, who started Urban Decay with Cisco Systems co-founder Sandy Lerner, says the private equity firm «understands brands and luxury retail.»

«People who do private - equity investments right are very shrewd and very driven to focus on key issues like investment return and exit strategies,» says Gary Simon, a partner at the New York City - based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin.

The New York Times reported on the weekend, citing sources, that BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis, who stepped down as co-chief executive in 2011, has approached two U.S. private equity firms about making a possible bid.

«This is a waste of time,» said one private equity firm employee who asked to remain nameless.

Hopu is one of the longest - established private equity firms in China, founded in 2007 by Chinese rainmaker Fang Fenglei, who is also the non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs» investment banking China joint venture, and Richard Ong, now head of RRJ Capital.

I spent a week in Europe a few weeks ago with our friend Eric who is a managing partner in a private equity firm.

With the help of a recruiting firm, PagerDuty pursued Tejada, an experienced executive who took charge of the marketing software company Keynote Systems in 2013 after it was acquired with her help by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

We had a great banker who introduced us to several private equity and VC firms.

The Information cited a source who has had talks with representatives of the private equity firms.

If and when a slump arrives, investors who have more exposure to VC and private equity firms will have a hard time extracting their money quickly, just as they did during the financial crisis.

Wolf Richter is one of the very few who have described very clearly and in layman's terms the usual destiny of a retail chain purchased by a Private Equity (PE) firm: read any of his articles here about the retail meltdown and the dynamics will become depressingly similar after the third «victim».

The bidders for Yahoo's operations include Verizon Communications and AT&T, several private equity firms and a Quicken Loans co-founder, Dan Gilbert, who is getting financial backing from Warren E. Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway.

You will have a unique opportunity to network with around 200 of the leading specialty finance companies, BDCs, private equity firms, hedge funds, wealth management firms, senior lenders and asset managers who are active in this space.

The company, formerly public but recently taken over by a private equity firm, still consciously tries to «do the right thing in the way that employees treat customers,» says Theodore Malloch, who leads Yale University's Spiritual Capital Initiative.

Schaafsma, who was appointed general manager of the UK, Ireland and Global Partners business in 2012 before becoming CEO of the company in 2015, steered the company through major restructuring after its acquisition by private equity firm Champ in 2011.

Accolade, which is 80 per cent owned by private equity firm CHAMP, has installed a new general manager into the Grant Burge Wines business in Jeff Bond, who had been chief executive of Peter Lehmann Wines for five years until it was taken over by Casella Wines in late 2014 in a $ 57 million buyout deal.

CPC is majority owned by London - based private equity firm Terra Firma who bought the business from billionaire James Packer in 2009.

He says it should hand over the keys to the United States private equity firms led by KKR & Co, who've made an enhanced $ 3.4 billion takeover bid and let them fix it up, away from the spotlight of being listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Helping to entice KKR, and other private equity firms, to throw a bid on the table is Mr Clarke's previous work with the close - knit global private equity firm industry who see merit in his initial plans — also revealed this week — to slash costs by $ 35 million at Treasury Wine and pump the savings into a 50 per cent boost on brand marketing.

In mid-2014 Treasury was pursued by two separate private equity firms, KKR and TPG, who made buyout overtures and did extensive due diligence inside the company but decided to withdraw after deciding they couldn't justify paying the $ 5.20 per share price tag they had originally suggested in indicative offers.

His former Secretary (the top aide), Bill Mulrow, who worked for the private equity firm Blackstone before serving in government and is going back to Wall Street.

Other prominent Democratic donors who have not given to the Democrats this year include Leon Black, a co-founder of the $ 53 billion New York - based Apollo Global Management a private - equity firm, and his wife, Debra Black.

The recently re-elected Democratic governor is tapping Bill Mulrow, a banker who has recently been working at the private equity firm Blackstone, to replace Larry Schwartz.

And while they answered the Italian Vogue question in a diplomatic but honest fashion, they were quieter about their relationship with Andrew Rosen, who is rumored to be interested in buying the label from private equity firm Permira.

The case in question is that of Eric Warner (Michael Ealy), a private equity heir who's accused of murdering his wife (Jordana Brewster) on the night he's set to officially take over his family's firm.

Adrian Mendez, a top executive at a private - equity firm who formerly worked with New Schools for New Orleans and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools

Dealers like Cohan are «the gatekeepers,» said Hill, who recently became chairman of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management after running the hedge fund unit at the private - equity firm for almost 20 years.

Woll, who headed the US firm's Beijing office for six years, is a specialist in M&A and private equity transactions, and deals involving venture capital and real estate investment funds.

Latham & Watkins LLP advises a high - calibre client base, which predominantly includes active funds such as CVC, HgCapital and Triton in the large - cap arena, as well as private equity firms such as Chequers Capital, Silverfleet, H.I.G. and Quadriga who concentrate on mid-sized transactions.

The arrival of private equity specialist Hippolyte, who is joining KWM as a partner, represents the firm's first hire in Paris since the office was rocked in March by the departure of a highly regarded six - partner private equity team, which joined Goodwin Procter.

Mayer Brown has hired Reed Smith's Europe and Middle East head of private equity Perry Yam, who resigned from Reed Smith in January after three years at the firm.

Main Could you tell Wall Street who your firm's private equity team leader is?»

Dinamani is following in the footsteps of Ashurst's former head of corporate Stephen Lloyd, who joined the magic circle firm's corporate group as co-head of its private equity practice after resigning in November.

SJ Berwin is set to lose City corporate partner Perry Yam, who is joining Reed Smith to launch a private equity practice in the US firm's London office.

V&E partner Keith Fullenweider, who leads the firm's M&A and private equity practice, says 2012 has been another record year for his firm's energy practice.

Yonge, who joins the US firm today (1 March) after serving a period of gardening leave at Proskauer, advises fund managers, investment funds and private equity firms on financial services regulation and securities law.