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Apollo Global Management, LLC, appears to be planning to become fully public as it submitted an S-1 filing with the SEC.   The company is currently semi-public on the Goldman Sachs GSTruE...
Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) has outlined its details of a financial aid or rescue finance package.  The company is raising a total of $7 Billion via direct stock sales to an investment vehicle...
There was an interesting communication from The Blackstone Group, L.P. (NYSE: BX) this morning and the company issued a press release confirming that data.  Blackstone announced the closing of...
Corel Corp. (NASDAQ:CREL) has announced today it has received an unsolicited proposal from Corel Holdings, L.P., which is controlled by an affiliate of Vector Capital Corporation, the holder of 69%...
As we have been expecting, Covad Communications Group Inc., (AMEX:DVW) announced that it has obtained all of the required regulatory approvals for it to be acquired by an affiliate of private equity...
MoneyGram International, Inc. (NYSE: MGI) has completed its recapitalization that was led by affiliates of Thomas H. Lee Partners and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS).  Here is a breakdown of how the...
Major sovereign funds from Singapore and Abu Dhabi have agreed to Boy Scout rules about keeping their investments in the US strictly financial. No political agendas. This is a copy of the new pact....
The acquisition of 3Com Corp. (NASDAQ: COMS) by Bain Capital and Huawei was already questionable, and then regulatory questions turned into trouble, and now trouble has turned into an outright dead...
If you have been around the markets for a decade you’ll know the name Frank Quattrone quite well.  Quattrone was one of the most influential investment bankers in the 1990’s who also became the...
Alliance Data (NYSE: ADS) had given Blackstone (NYSE:BX) notice that the private equity firm is no longer negotiating in good faith to complete a buy-out. The charge probably has the benefit of being...
The US government and authorities in the EU have been up in arms about sovereign funds buying into iconic financial institutions and tech companies. The regulators fear that foreign-backed capital...
A newly created firm called American Capital Agency Corp. has filed to come public.  This is a newly-organized Delaware corporation that was formed to invest exclusively in single-family residential...
Just a few months ago, sovereign funds could not get enough stock and debt in financial firms like Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER). When the time came to bail-out Bear Stearns...
Sovereign equity funds are huge pools of capital controlled by foreign governments. Most countries have one. Dubai is so rich is has decided it needs two. The country currently has one large fund,...
Carlyle Capital, part of private equity firm Carlyle Group, cannot reach a deal with its lenders to stay open. It now appears almost certain that those lenders will seize the fund’s assets and sell...
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