KKR & CO. L.P. is back.  At least its IPO ambitions are.  Long live private equity! Long Live leveraged buyouts!  At least that is what the company wants you to think.  KKR plans to sell up to...
Cramer said that private equity has a ton of money tied up, with Goldman Sachs alone raising $19 Billion.  Cramer said they can borrow up to 10-times and they are willing to pay big...
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas Last week Roger Ehrenberg had a great post pertaining to the convergence of HFs into PE. I commented on his blog & liked what I said, so I’ll...
From World Beta Investors can’t seem to get their fill from the private equity fountain. . . The magazine cover indicator(see below for description) would be screaming to get out of private equity...
Siris Capital Group submitted an offer to Polycom to acquire all outstanding shares, conditioned on Polycom terminating its existing merger agreement with Mitel Network.
Harvard is the richest university in America. Last month, its endowment value was pegged at $37 billion.But, the managers of that pot are panicking like rookies, hitting the exits trying to dump its...
CDW Corp (CDWC) shares are trading up marginally after the company agreed to be acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners for roughly $7.3 Billion in cash.  The buyout price amounts to $87.75 per...
In Japan the were called zaibatsus, vast interconnected holding that run mulitple companies through complex cross-ownership. In Europe, the concept still invests with large banks owning pieces of...
Most of the news about private equity operations has been bad. Tight credit markets. Broken deals. Buy-outs closed but in trouble because of large debt loads. Silver Lake, one of the largest private...
Last summer, Suzlon Energy Limited had a nasty problem with its wind turbine blades. Blades shipped to the US started cracking. Then blades sold in the company’s home country, India, also...
The Financial Times says that Cerberus Capital Management, Carlyle, Apollo Management and Ripplewood are looking at Chrysler (DCX). And, recently departed VW chief Wolfgang Bernhard may be advising...
Private equity has met the enemy... and it's staring at itself in the mirror.
Source: ThinkstockSabre Corp. has filed its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. Sabre is owned by private equity and is a key software and services...
Michael Richter, former All-Star goalie for the New York Rangers, has announced the formation of Environmental Capital Partners, LLC as a private equity firm focused exclusively on the environmental...