Four years ago the sizzling defense-electronics outfit snubbed New York buyout firm Veritas Capital.
This deal, for example, was aided by the investment by Microsoft help not every buyout firm can regularly tap.
His operational guy this time was Dan Akerson, who had left MCI two years earlier for the buyout firm Forstmann Little.
All three became billionaires long before the buyout firm, which they still run, went public in late March.
Silver Lake is the closest thing to a technology-oriented buyout firm out there.
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Akerson had held top-tier positions at MCI, Nextel and American Express before joining buyout firm The Carlyle Group as Managing Director.
In a major report from The Washington Post, we learned that Romney's corporate buyout firm bought companies that specialized in outsourcing.
In April, AAC Capital Partners, a Northern European mid-market buyout firm, announced that it had agreed to sell Inalfa Roof Systems Group B.
The suspicion is that the buyout firm that controlled the smokestack company, Saratoga Partners, was looking to leverage it up and extract a tasty dividend.
In addition, Hicks buyout firm would have gotten a fat price -- 13 times LINs projected 1999 operating income (net before depreciation, interest and taxes).
Critics note that Romney's tenure as CEO of the leveraged buyout firm Bain Capital resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs through layoffs and bankruptcies.
It began with a leveraged buyout firm in New York that I started with one of my investment banking clients, and then quickly moved to Hong Kong.
Refco has been advised by some of Wall Street's best and brightest, including the three firms already mentioned, as well as outside auditors Grant Thornton and buyout firm Thomas H.
Just back from China, Setser reports that the Chinese are up in arms about their loss on an investment in the Blackstone Group buyout firm, which is far below its initial offering price.
But even with perfectly reasonable concerns about the long-term prospects for Dell, the company is being valued cheaply by the markets and the would-be owners Michael Dell himself and the buyout firm Silver Lake partners .
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Bain and buyout firm Thomas H.
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Just back from China, Setser reports that the Chinese are up in arms about their loss on an investment in the Blackstone Group (nyse: BX - news - people ) buyout firm, which is far below its initial offering price.
He led a management buyout of the firm in 1989, only to take the company public again three years later.
Its founder regained control in a 1987 leveraged buyout and took the firm public later that year.
The jobs of 80 workers in the Scottish Borders appear to have been saved after a buyout at an engineering firm.
Scott Sports had bolted the U.S. bike market in 1997 after a buyout. (The firm got its start in Sun Valley, Idaho in 1958, selling the first aluminum ski pole.) Montgomery persuaded Zaugg to reintroduce the firm's road and mountain bikes in the U.S.--with him as a vice president of Scott USA. Zaugg, admiring Montgomery's confidence and connections in the bike biz, figured Montgomery was the ideal front man.
The firm would surely survive the buyout, but it adds another gloomy chapter.
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The buyout group would include the private-equity firm, at least one other investor such as a pension or sovereign wealth fund, and Mr. Dell, this person said.
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Moody's Investors Service estimates the size of his stake at 37%, versus a 60% stake held by Rizvi Traverse Management, the private equity firm that backed him in the buyout. (Playboy Chief Scott Flanders owns the remaining piece.) A Playboy spokeswoman declined to comment.
In June Durrett cooked up a sale to the Palo Alto, Calif. investment firm Symphony Technology Group in a leveraged buyout backed by Los Angeles' Tennenbaum Capital Partners.
Before that, he served as CEO of Columbia House, where he also led a leveraged buyout of the company by the private-equity firm the Blackstone Group .
But now speculation is swirling that certain investor groups are eyeing Midas (MDS) as a buyout candidate, including a private equity capital management firm, one large hedge fund, and a major company engaged in auto-related businesses.
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The firm was taken over last March in a management buyout by founder and chairman, Malcolm Walker.
The buyout group, which is led by the private-equity firm J.
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