Sometime in 2012, you’ll probably see black helicopters circling NASDAQ: Carlyle Group selected the mid-town Manhattan stock exchange for its IPO. For most IPO-watchers, this is a normal decision, yet there are probably a handful of weirdos out there dying …
In the tech IPO market, there wasn’t much to celebrate in 2011. Sure, some companies popped, but many of them fell back to Earth. Imperva is among the exceptions, according to an International Business Times report, but the likes of …
The secretive Carlyle Group is looking to go public, which means opening the kimono to conspiracy theorists around the world. Well, it would do the folks who wear colanders as headgear and hang aluminum foil from the ceilings to some …
From 2004 to 2008, dry powder in the global private equity buyout sector surged from $176.2 bn to 492.4 bn, according to data from research firm Preqin. Since then, however, it slipped to $490.5 bn in 2009 and is at …
In China, private equity is stepping in where hedge funds have pulled back. It may look like a change of mission, according to Reuters, but it is providing capital that companies going public need. Bain Capital, Blackstone and KKR are …
The weak performance of Blackstone and Fortress has led many to question the wisdom of publicly traded private equity firms. Now that the Carlyle Group has filed for its IPO, the discussion is gaining new legs. KKR has outperformed the …