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In 2007, the (financial) world was a very different place. Blackstone had just become the first ever private equity firm to offer itself up to the public. That $7.8bn initial public…

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Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy will on Friday try to hammer out a compromise deal over European Union reforms that the US and UK believe could damage the hedge fund and private equity industries….

Eurocrats’ hackles have been raised in Brussels all week – not least because of this:

The above is a letter sent by US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to Michel Barnier,…

Shinsei, the Japanese bank, is preparing to raise about Y75bn ($830m) in fresh capital as it reconsiders its planned merger with a rival domestic lender. Shinsei believes that a merger with Aozora,…

The Pension Protection Fund has unveiled plans to invest part of its £4bn
portfolio of assets into private equity firms and infrastructure projects as
it looks to improve the returns it makes on its investments.

Apollo Management has signed a preliminary agreement to buy Citi Property, Citigroup’s property investment unit, in a move to expand the global reach of Leon Black’s private equity firm,…

Some top institutional investors have warned Brussels that Europe risks building a protectionist wall between itself and the global private equity industry if it proceeds with…

Shares in Shanks crashed after the waste management company said it had ended
lengthy potential takeover talks and rejected a lower £476m offer from
private equity firm Carlyle.

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