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Ericsson was one of three bidders in Friday's auction. Nokia Siemens Networks and private equity firm MatlinPatterson were its competitors.

Just a few weeks ago Carlyle, a large private - equity firm, announced that it would open shop there.

Mr. Chen's departure is seen as a potential blow to U. S. private-equity firm Bain Capital, which had a strong alliance with Mr. Chen.

BTG provided the Carlyle Group, a private-equity firm, with a boss for a packaged-goods firm it owns when it needed one in a hurry.

J. Crew is part-owned by Texas Pacific, a private-equity firm and one of the potential buyers if Gap were put up for sale.

If the private-equity firm once memorably described as the "Barbarians at the Gate" [5] can turn into a tree-hugger, why not hedge funds?

The private-equity firm has since struggled with its investment and needs to raise funds to avoid defaulting on a bank loan backed by EMI.

Every week a billion-dollar hedge fund or private equity firm seems to announce an office there.

This studio structure stems from his experience with Elevation Partners, the private equity firm he moved to in Redwood Shores.

"China welcomes private equity capital and is a great market for Carlyle, " the private equity firm's spokesman Christopher Ullman said.

The investment is only the second by China Investment Corp, which bought a pre-IPO stake in Blackstone, the US private equity firm, in May.

Huawei is keen to sell a sizeable stake to a private equity firm to help the division boost US sales.

And up until recently, Corzine was an operating partner at Flowers private equity firm.

It recently agreed to put more than $2. 5bn into a fund run by private equity firm TPG.

The stock price of Blackstone, a rival private-equity firm that went public in 2007, has tumbled to less than a third of its listing price.

"Teaming up is always good in the good days, but it becomes very ugly in the bad days, " says a partner in a big private-equity firm.

Betsy Ludwig was on the fast track at a small private equity firm and determined to climb the career ladder all the way to the top.

It is a listed company that behaves like a private-equity firm, using its own capital rather than borrowing.

On Thursday, Blackstone sold $600 million of 10-year senior bonds, the firm's first bond sale and a rare move for a private-equity firm.

The private-equity firm retaliated by warning investment banks that they would be blacklisted if they funded the creditors.

Danny Stein, whose private equity firm owns eMusic, thinks the future of the business is to move away from the ownership model entirely.

Could he take all of Investor private and transform it into a gigantic private-equity firm?

Washington Mutual boosted its capital position by raising $7 billion in a sale of new shares to investors led by TPG, a private-equity firm.

Bain, a US private equity firm, was prepared to divest 3Com's Tipping Point unit, which sells security software to the government.

CCMP Capital is an independent private equity firm formed this year by former employees of JPMorgan Partners.

Blackstone, a private-equity firm, profitably sold on most of the property assets of Equity Office Properties within months of buying it.

Why would anyone buy shares in a private-equity firm that the insiders were willing to sell?

Belgian Post, in which CVC Capital Partners, a private-equity firm, took a large stake in 2006, has also sharpened up its performance.

The 2007 effort was mainly led by members of the United Auto Workers union who opposed the acquisition by Cerberus, a private equity firm.

Similarly, TPG, the US private equity firm, made billions on its stake in Shenzhen Development Bank.

"Domestic players will be ferocious competitors, " predicts Derek Sulger at Lunar Capital, a private-equity firm in Shanghai.

A domestic private equity firm could also provide some assistance by taking the firm private and injecting it with fresh capital.

Chrysler closed out its first full year owned by a private equity firm by hiring bankruptcy lawyers.

Lenovo turned to TPG and General Atlantic, another private equity firm, for help in running the US technology operation.

EPIC, a private-equity firm which rescued Whittard of Chelsea, a tea merchant that had gone into administration, is a rare exception.

" They are still shell- shocked about their losses in the public market , " said a fundraiser for one private equity firm .

Brazil is "absolutely the most attractive emerging market right now, " says the boss of a big American private-equity firm.

Xugong will likely now solicit an investment from a domestic investor, possibly a local private equity firm, to further its corporate aims.

The new Digital Li-Ning push involves Acquity Group, a Chicago-based brand-consulting and private-equity firm.

GNC's current owners bought the company for $1. 65 billion in 2007 from private equity firm Apollo Management.

Founded Satya Capital, a $150 million private equity firm committed solely to investing in African companies.

It broadened its reach to Europe when it acquired Granville, the London-based investment bank and private equity firm, in 1999.

And Tasti D-Lite, a New York chain of 60 stores launched in 1987, was sold by its founders to a private equity firm in February.

The fund bought into US private equity firm Blackstone and in December took a 10 per cent stake in Morgan Stanley.

Non-banks with seeding funds, such as Blackstone, a private-equity firm, and Citadel, a hedge fund, may fill some of the fund-raising gap.

In April, Bain and TPG, another private-equity firm, bought a stake in Lilliput Kidswear, a children's apparel company in India.

This month, it announced a $956million investment in Apax Partners, a British private equity firm.

Last month CalPERS persuaded Apollo Global Management, a large private-equity firm, to scrap $125m in fees over five years.

Carlyle, a private-equity firm, owns a minority stake in Sandler, for instance.

It has been widely reported that the private equity firm paid $87. 4 million three years ago for MF Global preferred stock.

One private equity firm that eschewed pre-IPO investments was Oaktree Capital, a US-based fund with operations in Asia.

But there are some warm spots in the market and Switzerland-based private equity firm Partners Group says it has found one of them.

"But you are deeply embedded in the partnership at a private equity firm. "

It reemerged later in 2002 as a private company, with significant funding from a private-equity firm.

Blackstone, the largest private equity firm in the world, has more than $100bn of assets under management.

It all began in 2006, when Forbes Media sold 45% of itself to private equity firm Elevation Partners.

Varsity, which is majority owned by Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles private-equity firm, has annual revenues of $260m.

Last year, Fred Hu, who was a banker and economist at Goldman, left to set up his own private equity firm in Beijing.

Others make the list when a private equity firm buys them.

Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts acquired Dollar General ( DG - news - people ) in 2007.

What does the private equity firm expect in return?

The Carlyle Group, another American private-equity firm, bought a portfolio of 34 buildings in July 2006.

Tsai and his partners will acquire a 60% stake in China Network Systems (CNS) from the private-equity firm MBK Partners.

It is also a fair bet that Mr Nardelli's next move will be to join a private equity firm and go undercover.

Since 2000 Mr Dauman and Mr Dooley have run a private-equity firm together.

I trained at 3i [the private equity firm].

Warburg Pincus, the US private equity firm, owns 6. 8 per cent.

The US private equity firm in 2007 paid $600m for a 20 per cent stake in China National Bluestar, a subsidiary of ChemChina.

A majority stake in Lego's four Legoland theme parks was sold to the Blackstone Group, a private-equity firm, last year.

For example, in June 2010 Blackstone sold a 28% stake in Merlin, a theme-park operator it owns, to CVC, another private-equity firm.

Last year Avon agreed to sell its fledgling Japan unit to private-equity firm TPG Capital.

In 2005, private equity firm Bain Capital offered to buy all 30 National Hockey League teams for $3. 5 billion.

"The Chinese are going to school on these guys, " says the head of one private equity firm.

HAO Capital is a China focused Private Equity firm based in Beijing and Hong Kong, providing growth capital to Chinese companies.

The writer runs Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and is chairman of the Royal Society of Arts

Luke Johnson writes an FT column about entrepreneurs, and runs Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm

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