Jonathan Marino
Will the Apollo IPO… Pave the way for more? Are we heading back to 1999? We’ll know once the bubble pops! New Yorkers! Beware of poisonous cobra. Gift baskets, pre-packed: Harry & David files Chapter 11
Proxy Fight? Take it to Twitter! Who You Callin' Yeller? Yellow Media to Apax Partners for $745M Ripped: A band of former White House economic advisors issue warning on the 2011 federal budget Research in Trouble: RIM’s growth is still a disappointment
Got our emails? Get our emails. And, tweets. Groupon: Sees falling revenue, according to TechCrunch We Expected This in China: PE bids in China for Shanghai Motel Management TomTom: Mapping units not for sale! [Ed note: until it is!] Let’s… Merge airlines!
The New Mexico State Investment Council reversed its decision to hire Calif.-based StepStone Group to help it manage its $1.3 billion PE portfolio, and is now in final negotiations to hire LP Advisors as its private equity advisor instead. The council was “unable to reach a mutually satisfying agreement” with StepStone Group, its chief information […]
…And a Dash of Significant Oversubscribes: The Deal Professor breaks down the recipe for a successful VC community Going Big: Cinven launches into a $7.1B fundraising Infrastructure Deals: Greece will keep leasing out its Athens airport and will seek private capital for other investments as well But Will He Bring the Blackboards? Glenn Beck could ship out at Fox News
It isn’t every day a private equity firm goes diving headlong into print media. But, earlier this month, Hadley Capital acquired titles Austin Monthly, Austin Monthly Home and San Antonio Magazine from the Conley Publishing Group, a Wisconsin-based media company. Now, on the platform, called Open Sky Media, the Chicago-based lower-middle market PE shop will […]
The secondary market is expanding at a blinding pace. SecondMarket recently revealed plans to substantially increase its offerings of pre-IPO company stock to about 12,000. SharesPost, which said it will follow in SecondMarket’s footsteps and seek to become a registered broker-dealer under FINRA, is likely not too far behind. Already, secondary market trading has provided […]
Growing and Growing: LinkedIn races past 100 million members Into Indonesia: CVC takes a stake in First Media after losing out in Kabel BW deal Asia Deals Heating Up? PE firms may have a new way to raise funding for deals The Test: The AT&T deal will pit the former Baby Bell against regulatory scrutiny
The Internet age is automating everything from postal workers to bank tellers to drive-thru order-takers. Are the bankers next? Today, CapitalSphere, which operates from offices in New York and San Diego, revealed it will substantially expand its proprietary M&A platform to include a broader base of clients, both buyers and sellers. Already its marketplace hosts […]
Maybe We Can Hear You Now: AT&T strikes mega-deal with T-Mobile Dealing: Facebook snaps up Snaptu The Oracle of Osaka? Warren Buffett sees investment opportunity in the Land of the Rising Sun Look Who’s Talking, Too: Helen Thomas keeps sounding off on the Jewish community