Private Equity

Private Equity To Fund Acquisitions Of Law Firm Captive Business Services Operations?

Integreon (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Lawyer’s Lyceum Capital injects £25m into LPO start-up and LegalWeek’s Lyceum commits £25m to enter LPO market in Laureate venture articles show continuing investment momentum into LPO, as discussed in my post £400m Acquisition an Indicator of a Maturing KPO Market? This particular investor group has been looking for opportunities to invest in “new business models...

San Diego Charities and Private Equity Firm Team Up to Gift Books and Supplies to the Survivors of the 2009 Typhoons in the Philippines

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Two San Diego charities and a San Diego Private Equity Firm are teaming up to gift educational books to the children, families and schools in the Philippines. The San Diego Classic Lions Club of National City and The I AM Foundation, two non-pr...

San Diego Charities and Private Equity Firm Team Up to Gift Books and Supplies to the Survivors of the 2009 Typhoons in the Philippines

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Two San Diego charities and a San Diego Private Equity Firm are teaming up to gift educational books to the children, families and schools in the Philippines. The San Diego Classic Lions Club of National City and The I AM Foundation, two non-profit organizations, are teaming up with The I AM Foundation's lead sponsor, Aero Financial, to gift thousands of children...

Private equity may just have made enough of a mess to reform itself

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Private equity is in trouble. Funds are being wound down. Badly burnt investors want what's left of their money back. The value of leveraged buyouts - companies acquired by private equity funds - has collapsed from almost 700bn in both 2006 and 2007 to less than 70bn in the year to date according to Dealogic.

Private Equity Shifts Its Attention to China

DealBook (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Global private equity firms are seeking to raise capital from China's wealthy individuals and institutions, even as the nation works to create a private equity industry of its own.

Private Equity Hedge Fund Secondaries

iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Hedge Fund Secondary Market Private Equity Looks to Buy Illiquid Hedge Fund Stakes Private equity firms are among the potential investors in the hedge fund secondaries market. [More...]

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Is Kiva a Private Equity Fund?

Conglomerate (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Kiva.org is all aflurry these days after a blogger disclosed that lenders under the Kiva system are not actually lending...

BackBay Communications Private Equity Brand Survey Reveals Importance of a Strong Brand

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new survey of the private equity industry by BackBay Communications, a strategic financial services marketing and public relations firm, reveals that 93% of industry participants believe a private equity firm’s success is directly dependent upon a strong brand. The 320 survey respondents, including private equity professionals, Limited Partners, investment bankers,...

How To Fake Your Way To Billions

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 57 minutes ago

Remember Danny Pang? He was the head of a huge private-equity firm who hadn't done many of the things his bio said he had done, who had denied having his first wife shot to death in front of her son , who was indicted on fraud charges, and who was recently found dead. Read the rest of this story » See Also: How To Fake Your Way To Billions Danny Pang Probably Committed Suicide SEC Nails The...

Five big equity groups face off for Matalan

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

UP TO five heavyweight private equity groups are believed to have placed bids for Matalan, the discount clothing chain.

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Social housing firm is sold for £38.5m

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

LLOYDS Banking Group and private equity firm Alchemy have sold their social housing construction firm Environmental Property Services to facilities management group Mitie.

Gala Bingo parent may get lifeline from Blackstone

Bingo Hideout - Bingo News (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Bingo Hideout have been following the Gala Bingo parent debt restructure news stories that have been circulating for months now with interest. It appears now after much wrangling that the hopes of the parent company Gala Coral to restructure the reported £2bn of debt may soon be realised, with news that Blackstone have agreed in principle to a deal and are now in the process of completing the...

Induced Bankruptcies Costing Taxpayers Billions?

Pension Pulse (Free subscription) | yesterday

Independent financial analyst Diane Urquhart sent me her latest research report, Induced Bankruptcies Cost Canadian Taxpayers Billions of Dollars Federal Government Not Stopping the Abuses . Here are the key conclusions: The credit default swap (CDS) invention of 1997 and the trend of private equity funds making leveraged acquisitions of large public corporations over the past decade are causing a...

Blackstone bids to take control of Gala Coral

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

Private equity giant Blackstone is gambling on an audacious 11th hour intervention in the debt restructuring at Gala Coral.

Carlyle Group’s New Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership: Donuts

Streetsblog Capitol Hill (Free subscription) | yesterday

As the federal deficit squeezes the Obama administration's options for financing ambitious new infrastructure projects, public-private partnerships (PPPs) are gaining currency as a possible solution. And in an illustration of PPPs' potential, the $86 billion private-equity firm Carlyle Group yesterday struck a deal with the state of Connecticut to run ... 23 highway rest stops. [...]

• Carlyle Group’s New Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership: Donuts - Streetsblog San Francisco