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Other players weighing joint or solo bids are media company Time Inc. and several private equity firms including Blackstone Group LP and KKR & Co..

• Waterland, a Netherlands - based private equity and venture capital firm, raised $ 2 billion ($ 2.4 billion), according to The Financial Times.

By the time Prada quietly dumped Dack's in December 2007 to private equity firm CoBe Capital of New York, just 10 stores remained.

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.

One of MSD's first investments was in an unknown, tech - focused private equity firm called Silver Lake, which at the time was raising its first fund.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and Citigroup extended loans totaling more than half a billion dollars to Kushner Cos last year after their officials held separate meetings with Kushner.

After naming long - time fashion industry veteran Paula Schnieder as its new CEO last week, the company is now evaluating a proposed takeover bid, reportedly from the private equity firm Irving Place Capital.

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.

Faced with this new reality, now is the time for private equity firms to reassess their strategies and sharpen their operational excellence.

Sports Authority had $ 1.3 billion in assets at the time of its Chapter 11 filing — the same amount the private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners paid for the company back in 2006.

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.

Interestingly, it is the first time a big global buyout fund has teamed up with an Australian private equity firm to buy an asset.

«For private - equity firms to be cited for deficiencies involving their treatment of fees and expenses more than half the time we look at the area is significant,» Bowden said.

Top Tier Capital Partners is a venture capital - focused investment firm, but we still spend time learning about trends in the broader private equity and public markets.

Prior to his time at CIBC, Tyler was an Analyst at Summer Street Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market companies, based in Buffalo, New York.

The model of real estate private equity firms doing joint ventures with developers and project sponsors is a time - honored tradition.

Verizon, as well as some private equity firms, met with Microsoft last month to talk about potential funding for a bid, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

«Shareholders are going to determine how far is up, and at the same time they might be prepared to sell and let the private equity firms take the execution risk.»

Red Group had been owned by private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners but fell on hard equity firm Pacific Equity Partners but fell on hard Equity Partners but fell on hard times.

At the time the loan to Glenwood was approved, the NYHFA was headed by Cuomo appointee Bill Mulrow, an executive and registered lobbyist at Blackstone, a private equity and real estate firm.

L Capital in talks with top fashion designers to setup LVMH clone in India (Economic Times) «Private equity firm L Capital is in talks with top Indian designers to create an Indian luxury house loosely resembling its parent - the Paris - based world's biggest maker of luxury goods, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton.»

Rick Noble, CEO of Haights Cross Communications too sounded optimistic of the new arrangement, saying: «With their world - class digital platform and new eBook offering rapidly gaining momentum, the timing is perfect for Recorded Books to be joining a quality, growth - oriented private equity firm like Wasserstein & Co..

Both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal cited sources saying that Lazaridis has approached private equity firms about making a bid for the company; The New York Times specifically states that he's reached out to the Blackstone Group and the Carlyle Group about putting together an offer.

In general private equity firms will have a harder time getting much value for the investors out of these deals.

His resume boasts time spent at the world's premier financial firms, with positions in investment banking, private equity, angel investing, and consulting.

Even with alumni ties and value - add programs, this university waited a long time — years, in some cases — after the initial introductions to private equity firms led to an opportunity to invest.

Simon Hewes splits his time between the firm's London and Bristol offices and specialises in advising on M&A and private equity transactions.

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Macfarlanes are playing the lead roles on the sale of the UK arm of Time Inc to private equity firm Epiris.

Today's New York Times Dealbook reports that Lyceum Capital, a private equity house, is preparing itself for the changes implemented by Britain's Legal Services Act, which, among other things, will allow law firms to sell themselves to private equity or other investors beginning in 2011.

Whether the non-equities believe that the equity partners» demands about their billable time and expectations of their total time commitment is reasonable when compared to other law practices performing similar kinds of work in private firms and corporations?

The January issue of the Legal IT Insider newsletter is out now, top stories include... Dealroom & extranet specialist HighQ receives $ 50 million in private equity funding — Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley among the investors + Intapp acquires Rekoop and now has 70 % of UK law firm time capture market + New Heads of IT at Macfarlanes — Andrew Powell headhunted from Nabarro as Maurice Millen retires + Edie Dillion promoted to global CIO at Norton Rose Fulbright + Ediscovery — the race is on to consolidate as deals spur «feeding frenzy» among Silicon Valley investors & scrabble by vendors not to be left behind + Zoopla GC Ned Staple Talks Tech: law firms need better time & billing software — real - time billing portals would be helpful

At the same time there were new disruptive entrants to market such as Quinn Emanuel, Stewarts Law, Signature Litigation, Enyo, etc. whose strategy was to provide a «conflict free» litigation service, enabling them to act for individuals, private equity houses and hedge funds in major pieces of litigation against the banks, work that the established elite firms in London could not touch.

Foran Glennon has described itself as a «professional services company» rather than a «traditional partnership,» and it has stated that two advantages of its ABS status are that it will permit the company (i) to develop an in - house forensic accountancy capability, notably by merging with an accounting firm (the accountants can become partners of the UK - based ABS), and (ii) to receive external investment through private equity «at an appropriate time.»

«We've recognized for a long time the importance of the U.S. market and in - bound referral work from U.S. law firms or direct work that comes from private equity funds or others looking to make investments in Canada,» says Leonard.

So, it makes sense that the private equity firm would consider taking it public to capitalize on Wall Street's interest at this time in the latter half.

The number of times each month that executives reach out to me because a private equity firm or recruiter or someone in their network requests their resume «now» often is in the double digits.

The mediums can be both passive and active as there is a time and place for both strategies and they usually include a combination of executive recruiters, private equity firms, executive networking, LinkedIn and going direct (the hidden job market).

The number of times each month that executives reach out to me because a private equity firm or recruiter or someone in their network requested their resume «now» often is in the double digits.

The New York - based private equity firm made several times its investment in British drugstore chain Alliance Boots, and it scored a gain of about $ 4.8 billion — more than 4.5 times its investment — from its $ 7.3 billion purchase of Dollar General Corp..

Meanwhile, at the time of its bankruptcy filing, Toys «R» Us was facing $ 7.9 billion in debt, most of it tied to its 2005 leveraged buyout by private equity firms KKR and Bain Capital and diversified REIT Vornado Realty Trust.

At the time he joined the first FLC class, Jones was COO and minority owner of Formation Capital, LLC, a private equity firm specializing in seniors housing and related ancillary business investments.

For Blackstone, the world's biggest private equity real estate investor, it's a good time to be both buyer and seller, said Ken Caplan, the firm's New York - based chief investment officer for global real estate.

The buyers aren't private - equity firms, which accounted for 7.8 % of purchases in 2012, but small - time investors.

In a move that has been expected for some time, private equity firm the Blackstone Group has filed for an IPO for Invitation Homes, its single - family home rentals company, Reuters reports.

According to the Seattle Times, private equity firms Blum Capital and Golden Gate Capital, in partnership with Hush Puppies owner Wolverine Worldwide Inc., will acquire Collective for about $ 1.32 billion.