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Goldentree in talks with investment banks to explore a potential sale of the Travelodge chain at a £1.2bn valuation

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Its owner of nearly a decade, American asset management firm Goldentree is said to be in talks with investment banks to explore a potential sale of the chain, with sources telling The Sunday Times that it is gunning for a £1.2bn offer for the 595 hotels. It was then taken over by GoldenTree in 2012.

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Epiris and Newlat Clash in £400m Bidding War for Princes Foods

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Epiris and Newlat are said to have seen off competition from rival bidders including Lone Star Funds, the Texas-based private equity firm, and One Rock Capital Partners, another financial investor. The auction is being run by Houlihan Lokey, the investment bank. Source: Sky News Can’t stop reading?

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: — firms or private equity firms? And I think fundamentals mattered more in private equity than they did in public market investing. So I wanted to get a job at a private equity firm. BARATTA: The media conglomerate? BARATTA: Yeah. It was a small industry.

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Transcript: David Layton

The Big Picture

. ~~~ BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest from the world of private markets, the Partners Group is probably the largest private equity firm you’ve never heard of, perhaps because they were originally headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. in Colorado.

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Transcript: Peter Mallouk, Creative Planning

The Big Picture

You’ve actually seen that pay off with some private equity firms is they’ve made, some of them have made monumental mistakes. Investment banks, there’s two and a few others. But the brokerage houses, you know, Morgan and Merrill and the investment banks, multi-trillion dollars.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. It was between corporate law and investment banking. Well, there were only 20 private equity firms in the world in 1984.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

You know, GE Capital, you have to understand, like, investment banking was so hot then. COHAN: Everybody wanted to be an investment banker. I mean, investment bankers were rock stars, right? COHAN: — because, you know, there were 72 partners and 72 non-partners in the investment banking group, so very small.

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