Kim Kardashian is partnering with Jay Sammons, a former partner at the Carlyle Group who spent 16 years at the firm to launch SKKY P...
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private equity
social media
Thomas Murphy started his career managing a tiny, failing UHF television station in Albany NY. Over time Murphy bought TV stations a...
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independent sponsor
private equity
roll up
Here’s how a Harvard MBA student purchased a company with “less than $50 million in revenue” without investing or spending any of he...
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entrepreneurship through acquisition
independent sponsor
private equity
A fascinating article in the FT describes the fantastic rise of private equity in South Korea and profiles MBK Partners.
Founded ...
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MBK Partners
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South Korea
The WSJ recently interviewed senior leadership at Advent International, a Boston-based private equity firm looking to deploy $30 bil...
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Advent International
credit markets
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recession
Dick Heckmann made his first fortune rolling up small companies "doing almost anything related to water: treating wastewater, making...
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independent sponsor
private equity
roll up
FT journalist Satyajit Das writes that the next crisis may center around booming private markets. Investors have allocated $9.9 tril...
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economy
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