Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) has appointed Christopher Sullivan as a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice in the Corporate Department based in London. A cross-border M&A specialist, Sullivan joins from Clifford Chance where he led the UK private equity practice.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Scrivani advises private equity firms and public and private clients on leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions, public company acquisitions, sales and divestitures and mergers of equals.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And the entire merger department of Goldman Sachs in 1983 was 32 people. Michael Fisch : 00:05:39 [Speaker Changed] Well, in the time that I was working at Goldman Sachs in mergers, there were a bunch of big public companies who were on, we were on m and a retainer, they call it. 00:14:44 [Speaker Changed] Huh.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And I had no work experience in anything.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble.

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