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With all of the negative press and attacks this week, you have to wonder what the Blackstone Group LP private equity going public is about.  We have received inquiries about how good or bad this IPO...
Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (HTZ-NYSE) announced that the offering by certain of its stockholders of 51.75  Million shares of its common stock, including 6.75 Million shares including the...
Blackstone has completed its sale announced two months ago of Extended Stay America for some $8 Billion to The Lightstone Group.  Considering that Blackstone paid $2 Billion in equity and assumed...
Eddie Lampert’s ESL Investments is reportedly set to raise a few billion dollars for the new ESL hedge fund.  What would Lampert be able to do with more money?  He’d be able to take larger and...
Biomet, Inc. (BMET-NASDAQ) has recived and accepted a higher buyout price for shareholders.  The company announced that it has unanimously recommended to shareholders an increased offer from a...
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A-NYSE) has one serious impediment to getting involved in a buyout of Dow Jones (DJ-NYSE) as some speculate could happen at the right price.  Back on March 1, 2006 Berkshire...
The Blackstone Group L.P. has set its IPO terms for its 133,333,334 million limited partnership units in an initial range of $29.00 to $31.00 per unit.  These are units rather than ‘shares’...
There is a recent boutique research report from earlier in the week showing a list of potential private equity targets from a specialty brokerage firm that I was very positive on from even before its...
Today was the last trading session for Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI). The acquisition of KMI by investors including Chairman and CEO Richard D. Kinder has closed. Additional investors include co-founder...
Cramer (TheStreet.com video link) thinks that this year is looking like stocks and the cycle are going to be a 1985 re-run.  The stocks started running and the companies became huge.  The share...
Bausch & Lomb (BOL-NYSE) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with affiliates of Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm.  The transaction is valued at...
Jim Cramer was giving another private equity target on tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, but it turned out to be two picks rather than one. He reminded not to speculate on ones where the fundamentals...
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Cramer reviewed private equity firms and his feature this week is to predict which ones could be acquired.  So much for Cramer not just speculating about buyout...
Stock Tickers: SLM, NNI, FMD, MEDI, HAL, WHT, MEH, AAI, COT, IPS, PALM, DELL, NFI, BCE, AA, DOW, WYN, NDAQ, GFI, KR, ABN, BNI, DCX What preceeds "Merger Monday"?  The answer isn’t really Sunday. ...
This morning has put opposing forces on the oil sector, and Valero Energy (VLO-NYSE) is right there.  Iran’a announcement that it would free the 15 British Navy prisoners immediately had oil...