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By a narrow margin, peHUB readers favor more carefully crafted antipiracy laws rather than leaving copyright holders without legal protection from online pirates. In our Question of the Week, voters called for a more nuanced approach to protecting moviemakers and music producers, rather than simply stopping the law known as the Stop Online Piracy Act. […]
Since a substantial chunk of the Internet is on strike today, we were wondering about your take on all this. The debate over SOPA — the Stop Online Privacy Act, as it is known in its House incarnation, or the Protect Intellectual Property Act in the Senate — had seemed kind of obscure and wonkish to me, having to do with illegal downloads of music or movies, Hollywood versus Silicon Valley, two industries at odds. OK fine, y’all work it out and let us know. Then Silicon Valley went nuclear, with Wikipedia, Reddit and hundreds of other sites prominent and obscure shutting themselves down for a day. That got people’s ...
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has raised its first $100 million or so to support its new lending strategy. After Buyouts reported last week that the firm was redoubling its efforts in the upper-mid-market senior lending business (subscribers click here; see the Reuters version of the story here), following the close in October of a […]
Yeah, this could be ugly. Readers of peHub fear that Mitt Romney’s presidential run will prove to deliver a black eye for the image of private equity. Nearly half of you — 46% — predicted that his probable nomination as the Republican nominee would mean a year of the industry getting slimed with political mud. That said, […]
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A majority of peHUB readers believe that this week’s announcement by central banks to support European lenders during the crisis in the euro zone will be just another step in a long painful slog for the unified currency. That puts our wise readers on the same page as Angela Merkel, who says the crisis will take years […]
Having rescued American banks in the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, the Federal Reserve is now stepping up to rescue Europe's banks in their sovereign crisis.
Now, this is being billed as a joint action by ...
Continuing to diversify its revenue streams as it prepares for a public stock offering, The Carlyle Group has acquired leveraged lender Churchill Financial Group LLC from its current backer, buyout firm Olympus Partners, according to sister publication Buyouts. The deal means that 13 Churchill investment professionals will be doing their loan underwriting for Carlyle going […]
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It has been an interesting question at our Buyouts Texas conference in Dallas, whether the European single currency will survive the current crisis, and what its impact will be on dealmakers in the United States.
Losing big piles of investor money and putting your firm out of business is pretty bad, but violating federal securities laws is worse, according to readers of peHUB. In fact, Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman board member indicted last week for insider trading, attracted twice as many votes in our Question of the Week as did Jon Corzine, a onetime Goldman CEO whose ...