Private Equity

By Olivia Oran NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - Investors looking to take advantage of the recovering U.S. housing market have flocked to large public offerings from industrial companies despite the sector's high debt load and modest growth. Propelled...

Apr 22 (TheWrap.com) - It used to be well known in Hollywood: no one ever leaves CAA voluntarily. Why would they? There's nowhere to go but down from from the biggest agency in town. But over the past three months, no fewer than five high-profile...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors looking to take advantage of the recovering U.S. housing market have flocked to large public offerings from industrial companies despite the sector's high debt load and modest growth. Propelled by a stock market rebound...

Dallas-based Orix Private Equity announced Wednesday it has invested an undisclosed amount in Baltimore-based R2integrated, which the digital marketing and technology company hopes to use to expand rapidly in the next few years. Founded in 2005, R2i...

Aside from the business suit he was wearing, which he joked was rented for the occasion, Sam Zell was never more himself than when he appeared at a New York lender conference in April 2007 to hawk his $8.2 billion buyout of Tribune Co. Slinging one-...

Paging Mr. Fezziwig. One might get the notion that Charles Dickens' good-hearted fictional employer was back in business after the announcement this week by a private equity firm, Cerberus Capital Management, that it intends to sell Freedom Group Inc.,...

Legg Mason Inc.'s stock retreated Friday, a day after shares shot up on a report that the company's board rejected — at least for now — a proposal by senior managers at its affiliates and private equity investors to take the company private....

Roberto Herencia occasionally rides to work on one of the four Harley-Davidson motorcycles he keeps in his "man cave," a Glenview storage facility equipped with a red couch, a TV and a 6-foot lucha libre mask, an icon of Mexican wrestling.    When headed...

The foreclosed home on Kenmore Street in Aurora was an outdated, unkempt eyesore until crews arrived this fall, performing thousands of dollars of work to make it attractive and modern, inside and out. But it wasn't until workers walked across the...

The private equity business has been in the news a lot lately, with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney having made his fortune in an industry that takes money pooled from endowments, pension funds and other big institutions and invests them...

There are serious clouds over the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System and the way the O'Malley administration has managed it. Consider the following: 1. The rate of return in the year ending March 31 was 3.18 percent, and the rate of return over...

A lot of people still seem to be confused about how private equity companies, like Bain Capital, make their money. Herewith a primer, in case you want to start your own. First of all find a company in trouble, not necessarily financial trouble,...