A private equity legal veteran picks highlights from the Blackstone prospectus.
The Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein says that greater transparency alone will not be enough in itself to placate the industry's most vocal opponents.
The customer is king 2008-05-01 Staff Writer The longevity of any private equity firm depends on its ability to raise capital for investment. This depends first and foremost on the manager's track record as an investor. <italic>Ceteris paribus,</italic> if the track record is good and the people
Fred Buenrostro has confirmed he will end his six-year reign at the US' largest public pension, which is also losing its CIO, Russell Read.
The global fund of funds manager has hired former Netherlands-based Composition Capital’s managing director to oversee its private equity real estate investments.
In the wake of Yucaipa-owned Aloha Airlines’ bankruptcy, yet another private equity-owned commercial airline has crashed.
The private equity firms may lose millions as Yucaipa’s Aloha Airlines and Stein’s Ziff Davis file for Chapter 11.
Here are the top five ways private equity firms are using technology to track portfolio company performance. By Greg Woolf, Vantage Reporting
Fair value is the rule. Now comes the hard part – creating a system for consistently measuring the fair value of your portfolio companies. CFOs weigh in on how they blend art with science in search of the right approach.
How does a firm convince its dealmakers to input their daily activities into a front office tracking system? By tying this task to deal attribution – the key ingredient in compensation and investment career-building.