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Entries tagged "TPG"

Between reality and the mirage

Some of the most sophisticated minds in finance operate in private equity. Still, over the past decades, they've been drawn to overheated markets as easily as your Average Joe.

That worrying wall of debt

Private equity can't get back to business until it figures out what to do with $430 billion in loans due between 2012 and 2014.

Inside Fortress

Don't believe everything you hear about the publicly traded buyout shop and hedge fund. While it has been battered, it's hardly defeated--and now opportunities in distressed investing are emerging again.

The fallen

In which we recall some of the year's biggest private equity busts.

Return of the covenants

During the boom, easy financings were the rage. Now it's payback time for lenders.

Post-holiday blues

Some LBO'd retailers find themselves struggling after a tough holiday season.

The price of nice

TPG and Permira offer LPs a giveback, but it's hardly free.

No protection

With markets beaten down so low, there should be opportunities galore for PE, so why is everyone so gloomy?

Insull's ghost

Lack of credit is sapping capital-intensive industries like utilities, which may force them into the biggest consolidation phase since the days of Commonwealth Edison.

Folly-la-la-la

We're rolling out the Barrel Awards for private equity's notable--if dubious--achievements this year.

Buyouts and banks

A once-promising relationship has been marked by disaster, so what lessons are there for investors still intrigued by the bargains?

A rock and a hard place

Debt exchange offers may buy PE-backed companies some time -- but maybe not much.

Taking the PIPE

Private equity investments in public companies have a mixed record. But where else can investors put their money?

The hit list

A look at the 10 biggest buyout deals of the golden age reveals a few are suffering, but more are doing just fine -- for now.

Still betting on the banks

Despite their problems, banks, especially smaller ones, spell opportunity for private equity investors.

TPG stares into the WaMu abyss

One of the buyout industry's best could face a $2 billion loss if the big thrift goes down.

Courts and kings

The complex story behind CalStrs commitments to Blackstone.

Pricing the put

How option theory can illuminate the strange case of private equity walkaway fees.

Every silver lining has its cloud

Industry woes may spur airline dealmaking, but BA must fly carefully.

Banking on PE

Banks are being introduced their new private equity shareholders.

Dilution solution

The Fed raises eyebrows with some changes in Corsair's stake in National City.

Take it to the limit

PE firms are pushing to bust down the Bank Holding Company Act, but is that really necessary?

Banks turn to PE firms

But the growing trend is filled with complications.

TPG and Goldman's trifecta

The Alltel sale shows again why buyout firms like their bankers.

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