Not everyone is excited about the Caesars Entertainment IPO. According to BusinessWeek, some analysts are saying it ‘doesn’t offer enough of a discount to offset the threat of further stock sales by private equity owners.’ The travel and entertainment company …
You don’t know who’s going to benefit from the Caesar’s IPO. According to the FT, the $18 mn capital raise will not be for the benefit of private equity backers Apollo Global and TPG Capital, the firms that bought the …
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 biggest casino company in the world is getting ready to make a big bet. Caesars Entertainment yanked its IPO last year, but the company is looking into the possibility again. It hopes to raise $50 mn in fresh capital …
It looks like public pension funds are going to start amping up their investments in private equity, according to the latest from Preqin. The research firm notes that these investors are looking ‘to be actively making sizeable commitments to a …
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 …