Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust partnered with Miami, Florida-based Rialto Capital and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to make the successful $1.2bn bid for the 20% interest in a joint venture set up by the FDIC to hold the failed bank’s $16.8bn in commercial real estate debt.

Stakes 225

Stakes Debt Bidding Law Firms 225

Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Law firm Jackson Walker has hired Patrick H Rose, IV as Partner in the corporate & securities practice group in its Dallas office. Rose most recently served as Partner at US law firm BakerHostetler.

Mergers and Acquisitions 75

Mergers and Acquisitions Leveraged Buyouts Law Firms Buyout 75

Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients.

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Mergers and Acquisitions Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms 75

The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

But yeah, then I went to Wachtel afterward because it, it seemed like, because like, you know, you’re, you’re a law student and you don’t know what a law firm is. And then like you can spend your second year summer at a law firm. And so you end the summer knowing what a law firm is.

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Mergers and Acquisitions Law Firms Hedge Funds Financing 52

The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

They became able and obviously interested in living more and more and more in debt. Stuff that we teach in basic courses is very static theory of how companies fund and it’s like one round of funding, debt and equity, and then the world is over. You’re no longer maximizing total value of the firm. ADMATI: OK.

Banks 81

Banks Debt Financing Finance 81

The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So we created basically a mid-market lending platform that ultimately spun out some of the most talented and capable folks, you know, within the private debt world today. So lots of folks work there that now run very large alternative asset management firms and credit arms of firms., Private debt AUM has grown to $1.3

Private Equity Firms 59

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Financing Finance 59