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.
During its 2009 Annual Conference in Washington, DC from September 29 through October 1, the Private Care Association (PCA) will address some of the most pressing issues facing private care registries in the country today. The most crucial issues to be discussed during the Conference include:
In tort law, a defense that can be used against charges of trespass where a defendant interferes with a plaintiff's property in an emergency to protect an interest of his own.
*Gastroenterology Consultants of South Jersey *is a single specialty, seven physician private practice located in Lumberton, NJ. We are seeking to add an eighth physician who will have ownership opportunity in our established practice of 20 years and our thriving, physician-owned ASC. Our physicians manage a highly organized practice which has converted to EMR and offers in-office Remicade infusion and pathology services. We also offer competitive salary and benefits, attractive call (1:7)…
Although global private equity markets have fallen on hard times, reports of their imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. So says Steve Kaplan, a widely recognized authority on entrepreneurial finance and corporate governance and top-rated business school professor at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. read more
Some campuses are luring students away from UC and Cal State schools with grants and assurances.
Thousands of other students might have jumped at the chance to attend UCLA, but not Michael Rodriguez. He passed up his UC acceptance last year in order to attend California Lutheran University, a less well-known but more intimate private campus in Thousand Oaks.
May 17 (Reuters) - Radiology services provider Virtual
Radiologic Corp said it agreed to be taken private by
Providence Equity Partners for about $294 million in cash.
As a quick follow up to my earlier post, a conference that may be of interest to readers - particularly Francophone readers - of the GAL blog has been brought to my attention:
Everyone knows that Google and the other search engines between them crawl, spider, and slurp up the whole internet, right? Wrong! The millions of websites that are obviously available on the internet are readily searchable, Google Bing, Yahoo, and their ilk have seen to that, we can usually find documents, pages, digital images, videos, music, and public scientific datasets at low cost, rapidly and accurately. But, that’s just the surface, there are countless resources that are simply inaccessible to search engine bots, not least emails, FTP sites, IRC, and IM.
(Rice University) While millions of Americans make individual contributions weekly at their places of worship, a new study by a Rice University sociologist finds private foundations have a disproportionate influence on the religious sector -- despite the fact that their contributions constitute only a fraction of all philanthropy to religion.
NEW YORK, April 6 (Reuters) - Porter Orlin, a New
York-based investment manager, said on Tuesday it wrote a
letter to CKE Restaurants' board and management,
expressing strong dissatisfaction with private equity firm THL
Partners' [THL.UL] plan to take the company private.
NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - Boutique investment bank
Moelis & Co has added to its private equity business by hiring
an executive with a history in healthcare and consumer
investing, it said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A spate of initial public offerings, including ones by retailer Toys R Us and healthcare firm HCA, is likely imminent as private equity firms comb their portfolios to see which investments are ripe to take public, sources familiar with the situation said.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Private equity firms looking to sell some of their mid-size Australian businesses are finding strong enough interest from trade buyers so that they may be able to avoid IPOs, after a poor run for recent stockmarket listings.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The near collapse of the global financial system, which wiped out trillions in corporate value and personal savings, may be giving way to a new "golden age" for private equity investment, Silver Lake Co-CEO Glenn Hutchins said in an interview on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Goldman Sachs' unit GS Capital Partners are to buy medical products provider HGI Holdings from another buyout firm, the companies said on Tuesday.
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.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc plans to sell or spin-off its $10 billion Citi Private Equity unit in order to cut its debt, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
There are lots of private-equity funds in Japan, but very few deals“PRIVATE equity is the garbage can of corporate Japan,” laments the boss of one fund with more than $1 billion invested in the country. The firm wants to do more deals, but there is nothing worth buying. By the time ailing firms are willing to accept outside capital and advice, it is too late: they are on their deathbeds. “They need morticians, not doctors,” sighs the boss of another private-equity fund.
