John Grayken, a US private equity entrepreneur, is dubbed “the executioner from Texas” by the German press. In South Korea, his firm, Lone Star, is known as meoktwi — eat-and-run capital. Lone Star is among the buyout giants now circling ailing British firms. Last...
Poland’s biggest publicly-traded private equity company MCI Capital SA is hoping that the country’s recent record initial public offering, for online selling platform Allegro.eu SA, will be a boon for the flourishing e-commerce industry. The fund seeks to sell a stake...
In this special episode of ESG Insider, an S&P Global podcast about environmental, social and governance issues, we explore how corporate America is responding to COVID-19 with new policies for employees caring for children and elderly relatives. S&P Global...
Carlyle Group, the large American private equity company, has signalled that it has started to pull down cash profits from its highly successful Irish fund, managed alongside Dublin finance house Cardinal Capital and backed by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund...
Under Armour is selling MyFitnessPal for less than it paid for in 2015. An analyst at BMO Capital Markets says the company is turning inward and focusing on its core strength. The company (ticker: UAA) said Friday that it struck a $345 million deal with private-equity... 