Get The PE Week Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Random Ramblings Huge amount of news this morning, so just time for a few quick notes: *** Buyouts Magazine today released 2005 deal-making and fund-raising figures. Not surprisingly, both tallies shattered previous records. In 2005, there were 845 leveraged […]
Random Ramblings Greetings from cold, snowy and Renteria-less Boston. Some notes as we head into the weekend: *** Monday’s Buyouts Magazine will include a piece I recently wrote about the future of private equity fund placement agents, particularly vis-à-vis growing buyout fund sizes. My general premise was as follows: More and more firms are raising […]
Get The PE Week Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Answer Key My wife is in the midst of correcting final exams for a college course she’s teaching, which got me to thinking: “Gee, maybe it’s time for me to provide some answers to those quiz questions I’ve been […]
Get The PE Week Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Update-Apalooza Abry Partners vs. ProvidenceEquity Partners I have learned an important lesson in covering this case: Court clerks can be very literal. This is particularly true of clerks in the Chancery Court of Delaware, who I have spoken to […]
Random Ramblings Some notes for our international readers, and for those domestics unfortunate enough to be working today (trust me, I can sympathize): *** PE Week will report on Monday that Worldview Technology Partners has begun looking to raise between $250 million and $300 million for its fifth fund, which is a significant step-down from […]
Get The PE Week Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Clash of the Titans Take a walk within private equity circles (figuratively or literally), and you’ll hear incessant chatter about the lawsuit filed by Abry Partners against Providence Equity Partners. It has supplanted Refco as the industry scandal de […]
Thursday Throwback The sky is gray, the beloved Celtics finally won a buzzer-beater and Nanosys proves that VCs can be continually pacified by the promise of products (as opposed to the public markets, which generally like to see the things). In other words, it’s time for Friday Feedback… err, Thursday Throwback. First up was last […]
Get The PE Week Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Friday Feedback The air is chilled, the phrase Web 2.0 already has become tiresome and yet another “worst hurricane ever” is threatening. In other words, it’s time for Friday Feedback. Most email this week concerned Refco, which yesterday received […]
Get The PE Week Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Reducing The Appearance of Impropriety Ever since President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to be a Supreme Court justice, pundits and politicians have been debating her qualifications for the job (others are questioning if she’s conservative enough, but we’ll leave […]
Get The PE Week Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Random Ramblings A few notes for those not taking three-day weekends (or four-day weekends, for our German readers)… Hand-In-Glove: That’s how Steve Meredith of Edwards & Angell LLP is describing his firm’s upcoming merger with Palmer & Dodge LLP. […]