peHUB Second Opinion 5.18

Flagrantly Thumbing His Nose: Steve Rattner's "lavish, $15 million summer home in the Lambert's Cove area of West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard" is causing a furor with his neighbors, apparently. (New York Post) Mixed Metaphors: Peter Lattman agrees with me that private equity firms use way too many metaphors. Or maybe they just spend too much time talking about themselves. (Deal Journal) Annex Angst: LPs don't like annex funds. Understandably so. (The Deal) WSJ Weekend Headlines: Silicon Valley is Girding for a new Antitrust Regime and A Private Equity Bid for BankUnited is key for the future of buyouts in banking.

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