Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 19, 2024

A London City Airport spokesperson said the group was “fully and legally compliant” with its “statutory disclosure requirements.” Others named included property group McCarthy & Stone, PureGym and public sector engineering contractor Amey. ” A McCarthy & Stone spokesperson declined to comment.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But whenever I hear about investing in airlines, it just takes me back to that Warren Buffett quote from 2007. Today, sports betting is legal in 38 states plus DC, and we all walk around with virtual casinos in our pockets. More states started to legalize it. He wrote in the Berkshire Letter. billion dollar on sports betting.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Sykes joined the firm in 2021, having previously led the real estate and development in-house legal team of Dart, the largest real estate and hotel developer in the Cayman Islands. She also has experience in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing and alternative risk financing transactions involving insurers and insurance groups.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Legal, but a terrible investment, and a poor alignment of risks relative to reward. August 10, 2007) Source : An alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. Let’s assume this Ponzi scheme was more akin to MBS – a legitimate investment whose risk was discounted by aggressive sales, but one that eventually went bust.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 3, 2025

In 2007, Ticketcart pivoted its business after it acquired Innovative Beverage Group and subsequently changed its name to Innovative Beverage Group Holdings (IBGH). After the legal turbulence settled in 2018, the company essentially pivoted again, rebranding itself as Quantum Computing Inc.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

This was down from the 1 in 5 who had a retirement account in 2007. While having a car insurance policy is legally required in most states, you might find a cheaper rate by switching to a new company. While some costs might be fixed, like housing payments or rent, others might be due for a trimming.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

MARCH 16, 2023

This caused a fear over the weekend that we might see a repeat of 2007-2009. This explainer will lay out what happened, what the response was and why this is not like 2007-2009. Is this like 2007-2009? What happened at Silicon Valley Bank (and the other banks that failed): An old-fashioned bank run! In our view, no.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Including but not limited to statements regarding our financial outlook and future performance, our use of capital expenditures, market opportunity, market position, product strategy, and growth opportunities and developments in the legal technology industry. There's a lot of work to be done.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

More importantly, I know them both for a while--Hilary since August of 2007 through twitter and, of course, getting to work with her at Path 101, and Kara since I used to e-mail her about her Boomtown columns in the WSJ over ten years ago. They're awesome and I'd show up to hear them speak anywhere.

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The Healthcare Investor

JUNE 5, 2023

Founded in 2007, the company specializes in conducting Phase I-IV clinical trials across more than 40 therapeutic areas Trinity Hunt , based in Dallas, is a growth-oriented private equity firm that targets small-cap companies in healthcare and a few other industries. McGuireWoods served as legal advisor to Trinity Hunt.

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Cobalt

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Then , we see positive progression again through the mid – 20 00s until a crash during the f inancial c risis of 2007-2008. The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Collateralized loan obligations from the Great Recession of 2007-2009, part of it is what causes the booms and busts. You get a bust, like we saw, for example, in the housing crisis in 2007-2009. What is legally called the fiduciary standard. William Bernstein: Exactly. Loans start becoming much safer.

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Cobalt

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

From 1999-2007, the Total Value of the region was almost exclusively tied to the NAV of the underlying funds. The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice. This marks the first time since 2018 that both cash flows were in line, as distributions rose steadily throughout the 2010’s.

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Cobalt

JUNE 14, 2023

The overall private market investment cycle is characterized by higher contributions during and following recessionary events (2000-2003, 2007-2010) and higher distributions immediately after the recovery (2004-2005, 2011-2018). The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice.

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Cobalt

MARCH 18, 2024

Surprisingly, the largest LP commitment sizes by investment type swapped, with credit having the larger average for nearly a decade between 2007 and 2017. The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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Cobalt

MARCH 8, 2023

While returns would quickly climb, the y remained suppressed going into the Great Financial Crisis (2007-2008). The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice. Buyout has shown incredible consistency in and out of recession, and will on average yield a positive—but not highest—return.

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Cobalt

MAY 3, 2023

In 2006, the chart show s some large returns relative to the average , culminating in a massive return spike in 2007. The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice. However, there are noticeably larger , positive returns in the lead – up to the inflection point in 2008.

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American Investment Council

MARCH 8, 2024

They’re headquartered here and you think about engineers, business executives, all those nuts and bolts, human resources, legal, medical – we have it all in Georgia.” In 2007, Hilton was this sort of a tired brand that needed to really get some new energy around it.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A company is a legal entity. It took accountants about 18 years and in 2007 or eight, they decided, finally, if you gave options or restricted stock to your employees, that had to be treated as an expense and lowered income. I have lots of problems with the word sustainability precisely for that reason. Can good management delay aging?

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Let me take a step back here and tell you that after I was wrongfully dismissed from PSP Investments back in October 2006, the government of Canada ( Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat ) hired me to conduct a full governance review of the federal public service pension plan in the fall of 2007.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

I built my first company, starting in 2007 when the idea of building a mobile app was completely foreign people, we put apps on BlackBerrys. Legally, you have most rights in Georgia as I gay person but de facto you don't. Dylan Lewis: You joined Grindr as CEO in 2022. What made the role interesting to you?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

3M 's $6 billion settlement, and how investors should be thinking about the legal issues plaguing the company. It's such an interesting case to me because these earplugs were manufactured from 2003 until the mid-2015, I believe, and 3M bought the company that made them in 2007. It wasn't even 3M producing a product.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 8, 2023

He's been at the helm since 2007. Mary Long: I saw something literally today would that was saying Adobe was so confident in their Firefly program that they would support the legal fees of any artists that were faced with copyright infringement lawsuits or something. How integral is Nouryon's leadership to the Adobe story? versus 9.6%

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 18, 2024

It basically created the legal framework for this new organisation. And what happens next [is] you’ve got a board, you’ve got a plan, you’ve got a legal structure; now you need a CEO. The two of them got together and said, we should make this happen, and that led to the passage of the Pension Management Act 1990.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

You know, in 2007 -- late 2017, when we announced initially that we were acquiring assets from 20th Century Fox, we specifically mentioned that we were doing so through the lens of streaming. Iger -- Chief Executive Officer John, Hugh and I will both take the question as it relates to divestitures or consolidation.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

The biological opinion was thorough and complied with all legal requirements, which is true of all other permitting actions for this project. As to PJM, as I expect, you know, Shar, from 2007 to 2022, we participated in the PJM capacity market through the reliability pricing model. Plaintiffs have until May 9th to file any reply.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

So, until the financial crisis of 2007 and 2009 or however you go — you actually time it, I was in this finance bubble. ADMATI: And so, now, that’s my current interest, which is the corporation, as a legal person, they are not a set of assets owned by shareholders. So, that was that and then comes the financial crisis.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

In an email to the News, Oxford spokesman Matt Pickles said the university accepted Schwarzman’s donation after “rigorous due diligence procedures” that took “ethical, legal, financial and reputational issues” into consideration. In 2007, Taylor won the $1.5M Charles Taylor is arguably the most important moral philosopher of our time.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations. Capital rules were changing. Risk appetite was changing. And then you see some surprise events. So it was kind of interesting. We’ve seen a couple of these events now.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Willy Walker in 2007, became Chairman and CEO of this Bethesda, Maryland company that his grandfather founded. David Gardner: What do you make of the new age that has dawned here in legal sports betting? The market has tripled since then, the S&P 500, but Walker and Dunlop has quintupled. as the yield.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. Barry Ritholtz : 00:06:24 So how do you, how do you shift from m and a legal work to structuring derivatives at Goldman? And I love that. I thought that was really fun.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: John Yeah, I said back then, the bet started in 2007 and I say today, being in the market and investing in hedge funds is completely apples and oranges. This is the summer of 2007. RITHOLTZ: 2007. And then it’s actually hard to make a legal bet. So back in 2007. How did you reach out to Buffett?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

First introduced in 2007, barely more than 15 years ago, it was hard to know at the time how it would reinvent the relationship between humans and technology, allowing us to not only make phone calls, but also stream movies, pay our bills or even airdrop pictures from one phone to another. Take the iPhone, for example.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

And ev all the sort of compliance, client service, legal, kind of, everything was done sort of on the side by investment people. And I can tell you from personal experience, us finance people, we’re not great at accounting, legal, compliance, all the detail and stuff that, that keeps the firm running.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

It’s got a British legal system, a British education system, you know, while there’s 23 different languages that are spoken and more dialects… RITHOLTZ: Everybody speaks English. We actually acquired in 2007 a local asset management. I mentioned local asset management being important.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

There's no indication that Macquarie or anyone named in this article did anything legally wrong at Thames Water, but the financial gyrations it performed as the utility's owner are contentious. "I A bailout is posited.

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Hellman & Friedman LLC

JUNE 24, 2022

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is serving as Zendesk’s legal advisor. About Zendesk Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service online. Advisors Qatalyst Partners and Goldman Sachs & Co. Morgan Stanley & Co.

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