Entries tagged "private capital"
Silver Lake Partners is weighing a purchase of Tandberg ASA, a Norwegian maker of teleconferencing equipment.
A Zipcar spokesperson tells The Deal that the company has no plans to go public.
Market confidence in a "too big to fail" institution slips further away as Citi's shares break the buck and trade at penny stock levels.
Wall Street appears less than enamored with the Obama administration's new bank rescue plan.
Michael Santoli offers up yet-another look at the future of Wall Street in this week's Barron's. He covers the current wasteland pretty well: Wall Street firms defensively seeking protection by doing deals with banks or emphasizing money management or returning to fee generation by serving as intermediaries (the latter a fine idea, but how many deals do you need to justify a remake of, say, Morgan Stanley into mostly an advisory shop, as opposed to a principal investor? Answer: A ton -- too much really for Morgan Stanley's capital base, and that's not dealing with the embedded conflicts or the...
