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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...For example, this newer document lists Geos LLC, a Russian private company headquartered in Novorossiysk, as the seller....
...On the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, the front page of the Financial Times carried a photograph of John Thain, the then chief executive of Merrill Lynch....
...In Salman’s case, his brother-in-law, Maher Kara, who worked in Citigroup’s investment banking arm, disclosed word of planned merger deals to his older brother, Mounir....
...In the Salman case, Maher Kara, Salman’s brother-in-law who worked in Citi’s healthcare investment banking group, disclosed planned merger deals to his older brother Mounir....
...and thus the half-brother of Phillip II of Spain....
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Lehman Brothers is closing its subprime mortgage unit and dispatching 1,200 employees. As for the kings of private equity, who a few months ago seemed to rule the universe, their reign is over....
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