Jonathan Marino

Disaster Strikes: Japan is hit by an earthquake and a tsunami, death toll yet uncounted Insurance Nightmare: Insurers brace for reverberations of Japan quake Significantly Oversubscribed: SecondMarket grows exponentially Coming Soon? Bright Food can finance Yoplait deal

Took ‘em long enough. Champion private equity firm KKR is throwing its considerable weight behind the Institutional Limited Partners Association guidelines. However, even in its endorsement of the industry’s self-imposed quasi-regulations, the private equity firm’s Co-CEOs Henry Kravis and George Roberts acknowledged they’re not quite 100% on board. “We believe that the entire private equity […]

Two and Out: PE firms tug at analysts from top bulge bracket banks Know What’s NOT Cool? Republican sues Facebook over account outage during election run Fits Like a Glove: Carlyle, Affinity Equity Partners keep bidding on Malaysian YTY group Double-Teaming Single-Serve: Starbucks and Green Mountain partner up

Now What? Can Barnes & Noble find a buyer? Getting Crowded: Small businesses’ Twitter use is increasing Team Effort: Companies with more women on their board are more likely to hire female executives, study says Going Public: Fusion-io files IPO

Now with a little less clout behind it, thanks to Borders’ bankruptcy, global eReading service Kobo still clearly has the capacity to get investors on board. Kobo received its Series C investment in part from Indigo Books & Music Inc., which remains the company’s majority owner

North Carolina is considering selling its warehousing and sales of state-run liquor stores that generate hundreds of millions in annual revenue, according to multiple sources and confidential documents obtained by peHUB.com. However, any deal would have to overcome a partisan battle between a GOP-led statehouse and a Democrat governor. A source familiar with the business […]

Get the peHUB.com morning newsletter here! Not Too Shabby: Henry Kravis & George Roberts get nearly $20M in carried interest More Incubator News: This time, in Boston Losing Ground: With Android sales booming, will the iPad become Apple’s new flagship product?

Good times for financial sponsors backing the natural gas industry are in the rearview mirror. Private equity firms, taking advantage of the sluggish financing market last year and in 2009, struck joint venture deals with domestic natural gas producers who suffered from limited access to capital in the recession’s wake, injecting billions into drilling companies […]

Let’s Make a New Stock Deal: Medicinal marijuana equipment GrowOp plots IPO, seeks funding Drill, Baby, Drill: The U.S. may tap oil reserves in the face of rising gas prices Dealing: Starbucks’ Schultz says he’s eyeing M&A Skype: New IPO details

UPDATE: A Battery representative said that the Battery Opportunity Fund is unrelated to the firm’s venture funds. Instead, it is “an ongoing offering, started in 2005 as part of our family office,” according to an email sent by the firm representative. The fund invests on behalf of the firm’s partners and friends and family, the […]