Lad mag Maxim was sold to a buyout fund, and he got ousted in February 2008.
William Atwood, executive director of the Illinois State Board of Investment, has invested in a KKR buyout fund.
In 1992, the year First Reserve launched its first buyout fund, Macaulay found himself in a Texas courtroom over one of his investments.
In another recent case employees of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce accuse the bank of using a buyout fund to rip them off.
Stephen Allen Schwartzman -- Schwartzman shot up the Forbes 400 billionaires list last year when the enormous buyout fund he founded, Blackstone Group, went public.
But Italy's transport minister Alessandro Bianchi has expressed doubts that the buyout fund will make a bid, saying their tender doesn't "give big signs of life".
Kaplan hedged a bit about buyout fund returns for funds raised in 2009 and 2010, pointing to the huge funds raised in 2008 that have performed poorly and still have so much cash committed.
Stephen Allen Schwartzman -- Schwartzman shot up the Forbes 400 billionaires list last year when the enormous buyout fund he founded, Blackstone Group (nyse: BX - news - people ), went public.
He served as managing director and co-head of the U.S. Buyout Fund from 2003 to 2009, chief executive of XO Communications from 1999 to 2003, and held top stops at Nextel Communications and General Instrument.
Acconci Trust claims in its complaint that in 2004 it purchased on the secondary market a 31.24% stake in Lincolnshire Equity Fund, a leveraged buyout investment fund set up by Lincolnshire Management in or around 1994.
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Those shares, along with some cash, will then be handed over to Synthes to fund the buyout.
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There's over a trillion bucks in hedge fund and buyout house assets, and that number is still growing.
Buffett "never would have done this deal with a typical buyout shop, " said hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson, whose Kase Capital counts Berkshire as its second-largest position.
What it means for the broader markets is a likely slowdown in buyout activity as the banks pull back from lending with easy terms and as buyout firms balk at paying higher interest rates to fund their purchases.
Buyout pros say returns during the early years of a fund often improve later as investments are sold.
Tokyo Star Bank emerged in 2001 from the bankruptcy in 1999 of Tokyo Sowa Bank through a partial buyout and capital injection by the U.S. PE fund Lonestar.
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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Adequate cash reserves can help fund research and development, make dividend payments, buy shares back, entice buyout offers or even acquire other firms.
It is not clear whether investors were reacting to the fund's hot and cold performance or voting with their feet on the proposed Ameristock Corp. buyout.
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