Private Equity
Peter Nolan, Managing Partner at Los Angeles-based Leonard Green & Partners, discusses his firm’s approach to investing in companies, including Whole Foods, J. Crew and The Container Store, and warns that 2014 will be a challenging year.
1 min read · 28 January 2014
Greg Brenneman, Chairman of CCMP Capital Advisors, looks back on a year in which his firm sold about $2 billion of equity from its portfolio companies
1 min read · 28 January 2014
In this video from Buyouts Texas, Erik Hirsch, the chief investment officer at Hamilton Lane, talks about trends affecting the private equity industry.
1 min read · 16 January 2014
3 min read · 06 January 2014
Buyout pros often torpedo their own deals because of a lack of emotional intelligence and a failure to build rapport with those on the other side of the negotiating table, says David Solomon, the CEO of Lazard Middle Market.
2 min read · 16 December 2013
4 min read · 16 December 2013
1 min read · 12 December 2013
4 min read · 10 December 2013
After two years of sluggish deal making in the technology industry, participants in a survey are “modestly bullish” that the pace of mergers and acquisitions will pick up in 2014, according to a report by the law firm Morrison & Foerster.
2 min read · 09 December 2013
Investors trying to decide which funds to back are putting more emphasis on realized returns, and deploying new tools to understand just how much sponsors beat or fall short of public equity benchmarks, according to interviews with advisers, sponsors, academics and vendors.
6 min read · 04 December 2013
