Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Carlyle Group are said to be exploring a stake sale.
Among the likely investment candidates: Cerberus Capital, Apollo Management, the Carlyle Group and the Blackstone Group.
One such, the Carlyle Group, is nosing around the European aerospace industry in search of bargains.
The same approach has now been adopted by at least one of KKR's rivals, the Carlyle Group.
Hopes that its parent company, the Carlyle Group would come to the rescue have also failed to materialize.
The second is the disclosure by another firm, The Carlyle Group, of how its top executives are compensated.
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The Quadrangle settlement comes after settlements last year by Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings, but the investigations continue.
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And he has met with private equity firms, including the Carlyle Group, interested in buying a majority stake.
Cofounder and co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, David Rubenstein, grew up in blue collar circumstances in Baltimore.
Before joining GM full-time, he had been managing director at The Carlyle Group.
Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings have both already gotten off with fines for defrauding the public with similar bribery scams.
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But there were hopes that Carlyle Group, the private equity firm that launched the fund last July, would step in.
Akerson had held top-tier positions at MCI, Nextel and American Express before joining buyout firm The Carlyle Group as Managing Director.
Goldman Sachs , Warburg Pincus and Carlyle Group have been among the most active U.S. buyout firms in the country, according to Thomson Financial.
David Rubenstein, a cofounder of private equity firm Carlyle Group, realized that he had more to offer than just his money.
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Carlyle Group is raising a fund to invest Africa and KKR recently hired a partner from an Africa-based private equity fund.
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Rubenstein, managing director of The Carlyle Group, a top private equity company.
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"The budget hotel industry is very stable and demand holds up in a crisis, " says Olivier Petreschi, director at the Carlyle Group.
Vorndao Realty Trust ( VNO) purchased the condominium property from a group that included The Carlyle Group, Crown Acquisitions and Kushner Companies.
The bidders include Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Thomas H.
As a cofounder and co-CEO of private equity firm the Carlyle Group, William Conway appeared in Carlyle's first-ever Podcast, released in February 2013.
According to his biography on GM's website, Akerson is managing director and has been head of global buyouts at the Carlyle Group since 2009.
Meantime, another Asian cover story in 2002, on the Carlyle Group's regional ambitions, zeroed in on its makeover of KorAm Bank, a Kookmin rival.
Yang, who for 10 years has been managing director and co-head of Carlyle Asia Partners, a unit of giant U.S. private-equity fund Carlyle Group.
Leitner, who became CEO in 1994, teamed up with a group of private equity companies including Carlyle Group to lead a management buyout in 1999.
JPMorgan is planning to spin off its JPMorgan Partners division, saying its activities were conflicting with the demands of important clients like Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group .
The Carlyle Group, for instance, encompasses not only a buy-out fund, but also venture capital, real estate, mezzanine loans and a fund focused on Asia.
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Two other private equity teams, including Blackstone and Providence, and the Carlyle Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, had also reportedly been in the running for Alltel.
Most of the other big private equity firms, like the Carlyle Group, Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management, KKR and Oaktree Capital Management, now trade publicly.
"GEM was initially stringent with its listing rules, but then it decided to suspend many of them, " says Eric Levin, managing director of global investment firm Carlyle Group.
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