Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Investment banks, which faced significant losses on risky merger and acquisition (M&A) loans due to a spike in global interest rates, are now aggressively returning to the leveraged buyout (LBO) market — one of the most profitable sectors in finance, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

More than half of large PE firms are looking to acquire an artificial intelligence (AI) business, according to the second annual Global M&A Trends and Risks Report from global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and M&A intelligence specialist MergerMarket.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

You hear about the investment banks that are running these IPOs, that it's their job to market and really try to create the biggest pool of money as you possibly can for the IPO. Why do you think expectations have changed so much for this IPO? Jason Hall: I think the expectations may have just been messed up from the beginning.

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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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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

In the financial crisis, let’s remember, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley became bank holding companies. Previously, they were brokerage firms. ADMATI: They were investment banks. And so, it was a wonderful life and during COVID in the banking sector. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right. ADMATI: Yes.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

So I, you know, I saw firsthand what it was like to, or what I perceived it would be like to work in a law firm. There’s a million people in a law firm since you want to be a lawyer at one point, there’s a million first year associates. So they were about 30 grand back then. Erika Ayers Badan : Exactly.

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The Big Picture

JULY 2, 2024

And then the second is this guy named Amor Towels, who worked at an investment bank for 20 years and then switched completely to writing fiction. Barry Ritholtz : Really, really interesting. So, so you drop outta Harvard, is that 2017? So there are two people who have worked in finance who have written actual literary works.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Prior to joining QIC, Sulaiman served as Investment Manager at UK mid-market private equity firm Graphite Capital and as Investment Executive at investment firm CDC Group (now British International Investment). She began her career in investment banking at the Royal Bank of Canada in London.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: So I thought about a — and I did work for Larry Tribe in canon law for some time. It was between corporate law and investment banking. I did work on the very first principal investment that Goldman ever did. And Goldman was the size of a law firm back then. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really?

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The Big Picture

JULY 18, 2023

Most guys and gals who get into the business of working at a hedge fund, never mind you know founding and running one, you I think there’s a pretty typical track where they’re finance majors at top schools, they work at an investment bank or an advisory bank, sometimes at a law firm, and then they make their way into the investing realm.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. He is the founder of MarketCounsel, which is one of the leading firms in that space, as well as the Hamburger Law Firm. I’m going to use a dirty word now.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. KENCEL: It’s the investment banking affiliate.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

I’m sitting there representing the bank, and I’m sitting across from the senior debt negotiator from the Russian Federation, or wherever it may be. So it was a patriarch, former military guy, had the discussions at his house, not a law firm. And these guys are thinking about the next — RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

He was running the h and q investment bank, and then Roger was my next door neighbor and very good friends with Jim. Jim Davidson and I are both big sports fans and shared season tickets for the Sharks and the Warriors. So we would spend a lot of time together. You know, if you had five, maybe you need four, if you, you know, right.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Partnerships, law firms, accounting firms go down the list. Venture capital 01:12:11 [Speaker Changed] Firms, we have some, some even larger major training companies, major retail companies that are LLCs are pass through companies.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

That has CDPQ's lawyers written all over it and I'm sure top law firms in Montreal and New York are all advising CDPQ on this matter. Spent most of his career, until then, on an investment banking desk. Those employees were all terminated in 2023 and CDPQ is co-operating with U.S. authorities.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

Asset management group had made an argument and then the investment bank says, he works here, and then the emerging market people say, what about us, and it was going on and on. He worked for an American law firm and he was one of these people who can literally do 10 things of the time it takes another lawyer to do one.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

He was in his forties when I joined the law firm after law school that he was at Paul Wiser and Wharton and Garrison. 00:07:48 [Speaker Changed] Most private equity firms of any consequence were built in New York by people who had been investment bankers. None of our people had been in investment banking.

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