At the height of the dot-com bubble, Silver Lake Partners arrived in Silicon Valley with a radical thesis. Technology companies, it hypothesized, finally had sufficient physical assets and cash flows to benefit from the type of private-equity financial engineering...
Warren Buffett has frequently touted his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as a home for businesses away from what he said was the debt-fueled, quick-turnover appetite of private equity firms. But the Berkshire name wasn’t enough for Tech Data Corp. Berkshire made a...
At the heart of Central and Eastern Europe, Poland is home to a prosperous and growing private equity and venture capital sector. With 38 million citizens, the country boasts about a third of the region’s population and has posted an enviable economic track record in...
U.S. apparel and footwear conglomerate VF Corporation and buyout funds Permira and Advent are lining up indicative offers for Italian shoe brand Golden Goose ahead of a mid December deadline, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Golden Goose, owned by...
Three years after China opened its 2.5 trillion yuan ($355 billion) hedge fund market to global asset managers, the industry is discovering just how hard it is to win over the country’s investors. BlackRock Inc., Man Group Plc and 20 other foreign firms licensed to... 