private equity investments
Enron's Skilling reportedly taps McKinsey cohorts for energy invest biz
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey 🗹;Skilling's stealth energy investment venture has launched, two people familiar with the matter said this week, staffed with former McKinsey & Co. consultants like himself and offering...
'Sheep in wolves clothing' Scooter Braun sued over defunct venture
Music exec Scooter Braun, best known for his ugly public spat with Taylor Swift, lured a high-flying financie🔥r into a dead-end job by name-dropping stars like Kanye West, according to...
Pistons owner Tom Gores' buyout firm reportedly eyes $4B sale
Portable toilets vendor United Site Services is exploring a sale that could value it at around $🎃4 billion, including debt, as its hand wash stations business sees strong demand during... ✤
SoftBank launches $525 million SPAC to invest in robot 'revolution'
WeWork owner SoftBank is ramping up its investments in artificial intelligence -- a move that ap🧔pears to be tied to its eccen💟tric founder’s obsession with robots taking over the earth....
✱ Buyout firm Thoma Bravo launches $750 million SPAC in search of tech deal
Private equity giant T💯homa Bravo is marketing a $750 million "blank check" company -- and pivoting from its usual business model in order to invest in a fast-growing tech startup,...
TikTok owner reportedly eyes fundraising valuing it at $180�👍�B
TikTok-owner ByteDance is in early talks to raise a new roundꦦ of financing that will value it at $180 billion after the investment, according to two🍸 people familiar with the...
💛 ꦿ Casual dining chain Ruby Tuesday files for bankruptcy
Just three years after being purchased by a private equity firm, casual dining chain Ru🎐by Tuesday said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, attempting to cut debt and...
Carlyle saved from losses by backing out of American Express d🍷🌌eal: sources
Private equity firm Carlyle Group’s abrupt decision to pull out of a $450 million investജment in American Express’ troubled travel agency business could help it save a foundering new investment... 🃏
Goya Foods in talks to be sold to Carlyle Group for ꧒$3.5 billion: sources
Goya Foods is in late-stage talks to sell a majority stake to The Carlyle Group in a deal that🍃 would value the cann💯ed-foods giant at roughly $3.5 billion, The Post...
Compensation soars for♒ hedge fund man🌞agers
The wallets of hedge fund managers are looking✨ fatter this year. Total compensaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtion for hedge fund portfolio managers is expected to climb 40 percent, to $1.4 million, in 2018, according...
Wealthy famili📖es investing less money in hedge funds
The country’s wealthiest families last year — soured by hedge funds’ high fees and poor returns — continued to turn their backs on the so-called smart money. So-called “family offices”... 🌞
Cereal maker Post can't find buyer for private-label food biz
Post Holdꦗings could not find a buyer for all of its private-label food business — prompting a move on Thursday to spin off the division and sell a minority stake...
Priv♔ate equity fi꧅rm celebrates $2.5B sale of Varsity Brands
Charlesbank Capital Partners gave itself a billion reasons to cel𝔍ebrate on Tuesday by selling Varsity Brands for $2.5 billion. The pℱrice marked a $1 billion profit over four years for...
Declara𝓀tions of independents
Vaya con Dios, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo Advisors ꦓand other major brokerages. Many trading pros are looking to leave the big firms and become independent securities advisers —... 𒐪
N♓ew PE bid looms for vinyl siding maker Ply Gem
♉ Private equi꧑ty firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice might have competition for vinyl siding maker Ply Gem Industries, The Post has learned. Rival PE firm Hellman & Friedman is weighing a...
Apollo's Qdoba move is latest in CEO's junk-food buyouts
ಌ Apollo Management CEO Leon Black has a taste for junk food — and his employee Lance Milken appears to have a taste for junk bonds. The private-equity powerhouse — whose...
Investors 📖fear driverless cars will make breathalyzers obsolete
Driverless cars are going to wreck the breathalyzer business. That, at least, is the growing fear among private-equity investors, who have balked at an opportunity to buy LMG Holdings, t🐷he...
Adidas golf ꦯline settles for lo⛦w-balling buyer
Adidas AG finally found a buyer for its TaylorMade golf🍌 division — but not at the price it envisioned. The sporting goods giant reached a deal to sell the maker...
𓆉 Buffett-backed firm interested in bid for Panera Bread: sources 𒅌
JAB Holding may have competiꦦtion for Panera Bread, The Pos🥃t has learned. Brazilian private equity giant 3G Capital is seriously weighing a rival bid for the 2,036-store chain, sources close...
Apollo,꧒ TPG inv🧜estors faced long odds to get returns
Whꩲen investing with private equity firms, you figure the odds are usually stacked in favor of the house. That is clear with the funds that invested in Caesars Entertainment, the...