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» 2007Dec 24, 2007
Filed under: Law, Private equity It was one of the biggest court showdowns in Corporate America for 2007 -- that is, the fight between Cerberus Capital Management and United Rentals (NYSE: URI). The issue: would …
Tagged: cerberus capital, united rentals
Dec 22, 2007
Filed under: Private equity A secondary buyout is when private equity firm buys a position from another private equity firm. And with private equity deals getting tougher, we may see more of these transactions …
Tagged: tpg, bain capital, baincapital, 3i, quintiles transnational, quintilestransnational
Dec 22, 2007
Filed under: Private equity With the current credit crunch and economic uncertainty, the M&A market has been fairly jittery - especially in the U.S. Is this temporary or might we expect a protracted slump? To get …
Dec 20, 2007
Filed under: Private equity This week, the cofounder of the Carlyle Group, David Rubenstein, paid $21.3 million for a copy of the Magna Carta. In an offbeat way, is this a sign of optimism for the private equity …
Tagged: emerging markets, emergingmarkets, mergers and acquisitions, carlyle group, david rubenstein, mergersandacquisitions, carlylegroup, davidrubenstein, magna carta, magnacarta
Dec 20, 2007
Filed under: Private equity It's been fairly slow for private equity dealmakers lately. So what to do? How about spend $21.3 million for the Magna Carta? Well, that's what Carlyle's co-founder, David Rubenstein, did …
Tagged: david rubenstein, davidrubenstein, magna carta, magnacarta
Dec 17, 2007
Filed under: Deals, Private equity With the credit crunch and the cooling of private equity, the M&A space has been fairly meager lately. But today, we got some good news (at least for deal junkies) -- …
Tagged: tt, buyouts, ingersoll rand, deals, mergers and acquisitions, ir, acquisitions, mergersandacquisitions, trane
Dec 17, 2007
Filed under: Private equity, Options United Rentals Inc. (NYSE: URI) confirmed that the trial in its lawsuit against Cerberus Capital Management for walking away from a $4 billion buyout of URI has been postponed for …
Tagged: uri, cerberus capital management, united rentals inc
Dec 17, 2007
Filed under: Deals, Law, Private equity Shareholders at United Rentals (NYSE: URI) have a right to be mad. Hedge fund Cerberus Capital Management offered to buy the company. Shares rose from about $27 to over $34 …
Tagged: buyouts, wall street, wallstreet, cerberus capital management, cerberuscapitalmanagement, united rentals, unitedrentals, inthenews, lbos
Dec 12, 2007
Filed under: Major movement, Private equity, Economic data, Housing, Federal Reserve Shares of MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI) soared almost 30% after the world's largest bond insurer got a $1 billion cash infusion from Warburg …
Tagged: private equity, mbi, privateequity, mbia, inthenews, warburg pincus, warburgpincus
Dec 10, 2007
Filed under: Private equity, Economic data The Boston Globe reports that subprime's collapse is spreading its toxic waste to private equity. For example, in 2006, Boston buyout firm Thomas H. Lee Partners bought six …
Tagged: hank paulson, ben bernanke, private equity, privateequity, benbernanke, inthenews, hankpaulson