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...TPG, the big private equity group, pulled off a similar stunt last year, when it plucked out $250m of assets from a collateral pool backing loans issued by J Crew, the clothing retailer it bought for $2.8bn...
...Towergate’s board on Monday confirmed plans to hand over all the equity to secured creditors, which include the Texas private equity house TPG, the world’s largest bond manager Pimco, and Lloyds Banking...
...However, it would mean unsecured creditors — led by Highbridge and including KKR, among the world's largest private-equity firms, and Sankaty Advisors, an arm of Bain Capital — would control Towergate, not...
...Following a discussion, in which the Board of Directors provided its advisors with guidance on resolving the open issues with the Silver Lake/Warburg Pincus Consortium and requested that its advisors update...
...TPG has committed about $500m and commodities trading house Noble Group pledged the same amount. He is seeking as much as $3bn....
...According to court documents, Mr Goffer received information about the Axcan takeover from lawyers at Ropes & Gray, who were advising TPG....
...2009, close to $50bn in private equity investment was made in 1,400 Indian companies, with high-profile deals and divestments involving the likes of KKR, Singapore’s Temasek, Providence Equity Partners, TPG...
...You focus on what you’re good at as opposed to spreading yourself too thin,” says Tim O’Gara, founder of Shannon Advisors, a placement agency in Chicago that works with Canadian and American private equity...
...LPL Financial, which provides broker-dealer services to independent financial advisors, sold $470m in shares. It is owned by TPG and Hellman & Friedman....
...Bain Capital and rival buyout firms TPG and Apax Partners also are suitors for iShares, the WSJ added....
...The Carlyle fund – run by Brett Wyard and Ray Whiteman – will join Bain Capital’s Sankaty Advisors, Thomas H....
...world, and their investors are drawn more from university endowments than from pension funds”Providence Equity Partners – “Providence has been on a roll – its reported rate of return is 70 percent”Apollo Advisors...
...“Leverage will be one of the highest we have seen,” says Matthew Wilcox, analyst at KDP Advisors. “[It will place] a significant burden on a company that is otherwise quite healthy....
...Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC Robert Johnson, Founder, Chairman CEO, BET Interactive Sheila Johnson, CEO, Salamander Development LLC Thomas S....
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