Can private equity play the infrastructure game?

Public-private partnerships will have a key role in the coming infrastructure boom.

Paul Allen's cable company finally began to crumble under crushing debt. To the rescue: an unlikely gang of creditors, who used some fine print to ram home a prepack.

Law firms are curtailing their summer associate programs. That can wreak havoc on the entire recruiting process.

In a sign of things to come, Boston's tallest skyscraper gets sold at auction after foreclosure.

Deep in Cajun country, a world-class craftsman forges some of America's finest knives -- part of a resurgence of an ancient craft.

Following Jon Stewart, a band of progressives targets CNBC. Their goal: to fix the joint by booking folks who got things right. Good luck.

For some companies, a recession is a terrible thing to waste.

Geithner's plan for purging toxic assets from the system has PE supporters, and detractors.

Facing new rules and declining assets, many Swiss private banks look unlikely to survive.

A recap of the first-quarter loan market.

Chapter 11 has its virtues, but it's not about to replace the U.K.'s administration regime.

With a new $265 million secondary fund, Industry Ventures offers a rare exit for private investors.

They haven't been seen for years, but in some pharma deals, these targeted options are beginning to re-emerge.

If it's as bad as people are saying, the government eventually may have to shut down big banks. Would an early start be better?

We quit.

Tokyo-based Olympus used Stephen Chelberg of Squire Sanders & Dempsey and others in its deal with Beckman Coulter.

Covington & Burling's Jack Bodner and William Collins advised OptiSolar in its pipeline sale to First Solar.

In its Pure Digital deal, Cisco turned to its go-to legal team from Fenwick & West led by Doug Cogen.

CIBC's Paul Spafford, Art Korpach, Mike de Carle and Shane Popowich were among Suncor's financial advisers in its Petro-Canada deal.

The deal slowdown offers antitrust regulators an opportunity to rework merger guidelines.

Proskauer Rose recently lured Jeff Marwil, Mark Thomas and Paul Possinger away from Winston & Strawn.

Boston VC firm Spark Capital recently launched Start@Spark, which targets seed-stage startups in the Northeast.

Steve Panagos is returning to advisory work, recently moving to Moelis & Co.

Paul Sanabria, Jeff Hammer are joining Houlihan Lokey to set up an advisory effort serving the secondary market for PE investments.

The proxy season's most interesting arbitrage situation has definitely become the three-way nitrogen fertilizer battle.

Great Depression chic is all the rage, informing our politics and policies. Our rush to embrace the dead past is a little odd, if deeply political.