2009, a Year of False Alarms for Private Equity

After the September 2008, no one knew what to expect in the upcoming week, let alone the next month or year. That uncertainty led to a lot of freaking out over nothing this year, and private equity had its fair share of false alarms. Here are five “trends” that had buyout barons shaking in their boots, but ended up being no big deal at all. (Literally! Get it? There were no big deals? Anywaaaaays...)

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