The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nobody in the world writes about markets, finance derivatives, hedge funds, you name it, the way Matt does. Barry Ritholtz : 00:06:24 So how do you, how do you shift from m and a legal work to structuring derivatives at Goldman? You know, it was all this like structuring and like tax and legal and accounting stuff.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

Blackstone told us "extensive pre-investment due diligence showed PSSI had industry-leading hiring compliance." But it seems, that diligence failed to find what was obvious to investigators watching a shift change in a parking lot. I used to invest in top global hedge funds back in the day and I trusted nobody.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

So I did my thesis on how leveraged buyouts work from the legal and the business side. And I remember literally sitting with the bankers at Manny Hanny and we went through every lending bank in the world, every major bank, and said if they lend their full legal limit — RITHOLTZ: They could — KLINSKY: — then we raise enough.

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I mean, how is the CFP Board even going through a process of due diligence, again, innocent till proving guilty in the sense when they have all kinds of disclosures, but at the same time, they’re publicly reprimanding 40 people, 80 people, whatever the number is, in a given year, out of the tens of thousands.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

There were financial experiments where the borrower hadn’t been through due diligence. So we’ve, we purchased, and most of the homes were purchased one at a time, independent due diligence, independent construction management to get the home back up to current market standards. The LTV was very high.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Unlike some rival bidders, KKR plans to keep Thames Water intact rather than breaking it up or selling off assets to fund its offer. The bid follows a key legal victory for Thames Water in Londons High Court, which granted the company permission to raise up to 3bn in high-cost debt.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Adani Group said in a statement that the charges are “baseless and denied” and that it plans to use all legal means to fight them. Julian Gratiaen, who oversees legal aspects of Omers’ infrastructure assets in Asia, has been on Azure’s board since July. Adani Green sought to raise money from U.S. law, American authorities say.

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