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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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.
Akerson had held top-tier positions at MCI, Nextel and American Express before joining buyout firm The Carlyle Group as Managing Director.
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.
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.
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.
In addition to Ron Baron, two other Forbes 400 members addressed the crowd: David Rubenstein of private equity giant The Carlyle Group and Kevin Plank, founder and CEO of Baltimore-based Under Armour.
Jon L. Luther, chief executive of Dunkin' Brands, a portfolio company of buyout firms Bain Capital Partners and the Carlyle Group, is slated to present the softer side of private equity to Congress on Wednesday.
United Defense, the combined business, was acquired by the Carlyle Group investment banking house in 1997, and then sold to BAE Systems in 2005 which later merged it with another combat-vehicle business called Armor Holdings.
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Earlier this year, the joint venture of investors that owns the Riverside Center parcel including Extell and the Carlyle Group opted to sell the first building site along 61st Street and West End Avenue, and Dermot emerged the winning bidder.
Billionaire Leon Black recently managed to finally list Apollo Global Management on the New York Stock Exchange and billionaire David Rubenstein appears well on his way to pulling off an IPO for his private equity shop, The Carlyle Group.
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In 1987 William Conway and Daniel D'Aniello (former financial gurus at MCI Communications and Marriott Corp. respectively) teamed up with David Rubinstein (a lawyer and Carter administration official) to found the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm based in the District.
The Quadrangle settlement comes after settlements last year by Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings, but the investigations continue.
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But there were hopes that Carlyle Group, the private equity firm that launched the fund last July, would step in.
The bidders include Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Thomas H.
Goldman Sachs , Warburg Pincus and Carlyle Group have been among the most active U.S. buyout firms in the country, according to Thomson Financial.
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 .
Carlyle is buying the aerospace arm of the troubled Fiat group, Fiat Avio, with an Italian partner.
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