Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. 21,000 and Counting… Every time the PE Week Wire adds another thousand subscribers (we hit 21,000 yesterday), I like to remind you that this free service is just a tasty sampling of the 8-course feast that is Private Equity Week. To […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Random Ramblings: Apax, Hedge Funds and Antoine A few scattered notes before I head outside for some light shoveling. * For the past month, readers have been asking what I meant when I suggested that Apax Partners could become the next […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. It Just Got Messy As my plane pulled into the gate last night, I got a call from Steve Barrett, chief marketing officer for liquidating law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault. We chatted briefly, with Steve declining much comment, as […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Dagres Goes Angel 1. Did you hear the one about how Todd Dagres is opening an East Coast office for Kleiner Perkins? Or maybe that he’s been dating some notable movie starlets? No? Well Dagres has heard (and denied) them all […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Random Ramblings A few notes as we head into Super Bowl Weekend (a.k.a. “go cry in your cheesesteak” weekend): * The jet that crashed Wednesday at Teterboro Airport had been chartered by private equity firm Kelso & Co., but all five […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Friday Feedback: Testa, Jobs and Greed The New York air is cold, yet another columnist is on the Bush payroll (Mike McManus) and Goodwin Procter has nabbed additional Testa Hurwitz attorneys, including managing partner George Davitt. In other words, it’s time for […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. On The Run No time to chat this morning, as I’ve got to head over to the Wharton Private Equity Conference. Just imagine if you had advertised in this space… you’d be getting all the attention. Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst […]
Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Goodbye Testa Hurwitz About an hour ago, the hammer officially fell on legendary Boston law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault. After failed talks with several potential acquirers, the partners held an early morning meeting in which they voted to disband. The […]
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Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. In Memoriam Some tragic news from the St. Louis venture community, as David Bergmann of Advantage Capital Partners has passed away at the age of 55. He had been successfully rescuing one of his dogs from a local pond, when he […]