Jonathan Marino

LinkedIn’s Shareholders: Specific figs on who holds how much How to Leak: A comprehensive piece chronicling Julian Assange’s dealings with major media outlets The Public Network: Linkedin's IPO only stokes further expectations for Facebook Refinancing: Borders gets a commitment from GE Capital for $550 million, and there’s probably a new GE Capital TV ad coming out of this…

It’s been a while since we brought you an update on Snow Phipps, which revealed plans in 2009 to raise a $700 million fund, a slight increase from its $620 million fund. Well, the time has arrived: they’re closing in on that target, after spending more than a year making very few headlines. According to an S.E.C. filing, Snow Phipps has raised $612.7 million from 63 investors, putting them just shy of their biggest fund ever. We put a call into Snow Phipps, and will be back with more if they share it with us.

Moving Up?: Be sure to choose your references wisely Makin’ Deals: Verizon is trying to buy IT service provider Terremark Worldwide in a $1.4B deal Breakin’ Up: Sara Lee, having spurned PE, may welcome their bids—but they’re auctioning off piecemeal, now

Hear that, cable?: Streaming subscribers are now driving Netflix’s growth Not Again!: NY and the East Coast take a weather wallop Banking M&A: Moelis & Co. snaps up Asia Pacific Advisers in Hong Kong How Bad Do You Want It?: Genzyme CEO Henry Termeer isn’t going to take his Sanofi-Aventis bid behind the woodshed, and into a proxy fight

Mea Culpa: Some of you took umbrage to my poking fun at Detroit’s reputation in a prior post regarding Tom Gores acquiring the Pistons (who are, just to be clear, still awful). Those of you who did write in, will be happy to know that today’s lunch was crow Downshifting: More bad news for Toyota Snitchin’: The House of Raj is comin’ down! I’ll Take the Over, Thanks: Analysts’ iPhone sales estimates for ’11 with dual carriers are out

The NYC Turing Fellows program wants to bring talented computer science and engineering students to New York in droves, and they’re planning to place them at some significant Web businesses including SecondMarket, Foursquare and Tumblr. Canaan Partners’ Warren Lee —whose firm has become one of the latest in a series to open its doors in the Big […]

HIG Capital is the new majority stakeholder in Hooters of America, peHUB has learned exclusively from multiple sources. The private equity investor is expected to announce shortly that it was among the group of investors led by minority investor Chanticleer Holdings that bought Hooters of America and Texas Wings Inc., the largest Hooters franchisees. Connecticut-based PE […]

PE Mega-Deal: AlpInvest Partners is sold to Carlyle in €32.3B deal Going Public: Nielsen, and at a higher price than initially anticipated It’s Venture Capital!: It’s speed dating! It’s both! Make your pitch to the pros Nobody Doesn’t Like Sara Lee: But that doesn’t mean Sara Lee’s got to like you back, PE Murdoch: The media titan flakes on Davos as his BSkyB bid is threatened

Fit to be TiEd: The TiE network launches an angels investment group in Boston Next Up: Rep. Paul Ryan will rebut the President’s State of the Union address Oscars!: The King’s Speech is up for the most hardware Icahn Wins (It Seems): Dynegy’s got until midnight to find a better bid than Carl Icahns—which trumped Blackstone’s take-private offer by 10 percent Hiring!: Well, just with GTCR and TA Associates

PE and VC pros: it’s finally good to be you again. You love yourselves; you like your boss more and more every year; hell, you even approve of Barack Obama more than you did last year! And, perhaps most important of all, you’re expecting more business. The Semaphore 2011 Confidence Survey, published each year by […]