PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuters) - Private equity firm
American Securities is bidding for California Pizza Kitchen Inc
, two sources familiar with the situation said.
The Truth Behind Mitt Romney’s Private Equity Past Click! Follow Us on Facebook! Private Equity, formerly an obscure corner of the financial world, has become a hot topic of the 2012 Presidential Election. While most people don't know the precise function of this form of investment they do know it made presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney an enormous amount of money and created [...]
Asia Private Equity Weekly News, February 6, 2012 HONG KONG, February 6 (Reuters) - News anddevelopments in Asia private equity from Reuters News for theLunar New Year and week ending Feb. 3. FEBRUARY 3 HONG KONG'S Hutchison 3G will buy Orange Austria ...
Private-Equity Rallies Around Mitt Romney’s Dodd-Frank Cure One evening in late September, Mitt Romney supporters gathered at the $3 million Boca Raton, Florida, home of Marc Leder, the Sun Capital Partners Inc. co- founder behind the takeovers of retailers Friendly Ice Cream Corp., Limited stores and ShopKo Stores Inc.
Private Equity Has a 'Social Responsibility': Carlyle Founder NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Gordon Gekko? Try Mother Teresa. The private equity firms that sometimes reap billions in gains on buyout investments also have a social responsibility, says one private equity titan. Such an acknowledgement would add to the expectation that firms can find the highest investment returns in the financial world and could solve the industry's negative image, as outrage ...
British IT companies attracting strong private equity investment Technology, media and telecoms (TMT) firms are among the fastest growing private equity-backed businesses in the UK, with 26 sector companies featuring in the latest Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100.
Private Equity PAC Showed A Lot of Love To Congressman Joe Crowley The Private Equity & Growth Capital Council, which was formed in 2007 by several of the country's largest private equity firms, quietly formed a political action committee last spring and began making campaign contributions this past summer. New York City Congressman Joe Crowley was one of the top Democratic beneficiaries of donations from the private equity PAC. Read More
Private Equity's Defenders Emerge From Shadows As the political attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital have intensified, some buyout giants are punching back, including Hamilton James of Blackstone.