He surely did but used their concept to proceed with Silver Lake Partners and not Southeastern.
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Two months later, the founder sat down to talk with Silver Lake Partners.
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Other shareholders that will cash out include Silver Lake Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures.
The transaction would be led by Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.
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Dell , the third-largest PC maker, is in talks about a potential LBO with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.
Hawkins and Cates completed a lengthy sum-of-the-parts valuation of Dell that blasted the founder and private equity shop Silver Lake Partners for low-balling.
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Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners is working with Microsoft on a proposal to buy Yahoo , according to the Wall Street Journal.
The deal will help Web.com compete with GoDaddy, which was acquired by private equity firms KKR, Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures last month.
The two companies share a private equity owner, Silver Lake Partners.
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The Wall Street Journal reported today that Dell has recently held talks with buyout firms Silver Lake Partners and TPG about going private.
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Under the terms of the proposal, Microsoft would front several billion dollars towards a fund with Silver Lake Partners and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board.
Roger McNamee, a principal at investment firm Silver Lake Partners, argues that Overture is well positioned, thanks to its msn business and a new deal with Yahoo Japan.
Silver Lake Partners negotiated an exclusive on that Microsoft money.
They basically believe that billionaire founder Michael Dell and his investment partner, Silver Lake Partners, could wind up stealing the company from shareholders by offering only a slight premium.
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In February, Michael Dell confirmed an offer to buy out his PC company for USD 24.4bn alongside Silver Lake Partners, which attracted competing bids from Carl Icahn and Blackstone.
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Analysts have also mentioned handset maker Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) and private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners as possible acquirers.
Private equity firms Blackstone Group and Silver Lake Partners.
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In a letter to the special committee released by Dell, Icahn said he has built a significant stake in the PC-maker, and that the buyout by Dell and Silver Lake Partners undervalues the business.
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One further factor was essential in helping DST to gatecrash the party of the handful of private-equity funds, such as Elevation Partners, TCV and Silver Lake Partners, which typically provide successful American internet firms with additional cash.
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The PC-maker agreed to a buyout offer from founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners a few months ago, but resistance from shareholders called the deal into question as Blackstone and billionaire Carl Icahn circled the company.
Dell today again urged shareholders to allow the company to sell itself to billionaire founder Michael Dell and private equity shop Silver Lake Partners, prompting the activist investors opposing the deal to step up their campaign to scuttle it.
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Because Mr. Dell eventually allied himself with private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners to take Dell private, it has been up to Mr. Mandl to defuse worries that Mr. Dell had an inside track to buy the company on the cheap.
The experiment faltered, and eBay gave up on Skype in 2009, selling a 70% stake to a group of technology investors including Silver Lake Partners, venture capital firms Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, who will make a handsome return on the Microsoft transaction.
Representatives from Silver Lake Partners, one of the lead investors among the consortium of private equity, venture capitalist and pension funds that bought Skype from parent eBay in 2009, told Forbes that Skype will continue to be run out of multiple offices, even after it becomes a division of Microsoft.
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The first thing to keep in mind is that control will rest in the hands of Michael Dell, not Silver Lake Silver Partners.
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Reuters reports that Barclays and Perella Weinberg Partners are advising Silver Lake, while JPMorgan Chase is advising Dell.
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Bidders reportedly showing an interest in the Sunnyvale, California-based company include Silver Lake, Peter Chernin, Providence Equity Partners, DST Global and Alibaba Group.
Elevation Partners was launched in June by Roger McNamee, formerly of Silver Lake, and Bono, a rock star, to seek out deals in the media and entertainment industry.
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