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vRide is a ride sharing platform offering commuters an economical and environmentally friendly way to get to and from work each day. With an investment from the private equity firm TPG Capital, vRide…

Michigan-based vRide is a ride sharing platform offering commuters an economical and environmentally friendly way to get to and from work each day. They’ve issued a nation-wide challenge to take…

Judge: “TPG’s investment in vRide exemplifies the societal benefits of pairing capital and expertise with entrepreneurs, innovators and fresh ideas.” Michigan-based vRide is a ride sharing…

Judge: “The benefits of private equity returns to the pensions, charitable foundations and university endowments are clear.  No other asset class provides the consistently superior returns of…

In a blog post for Forbes, President and CEO of CommVault, N. Robert Hammer, replies to critics who criticize private equity for political gain. Having run companies funded by private equity, Hammer…

ByMichael Wursthorn Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.’s ownership of the discount retailer Dollar General Corp. has found another use besides being a buyout success for the firm. The…

Headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, Dollar General is a national retailer that has been revived by private equity. The company’s growth and…

Judge: “Dollar General is one of many examples of household names reenergized by private equity.” Often left out of the conversation surrounding the presidential election, private equity is…

Headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, Dollar General is a national retailer that has been revived by private equity. The company’s growth and profitability had slowed and in 2007, the…

Postlewaite: “The logic for the [tax increase] proposal is undercut by the evolution of the tax law over the last 30 years, which has embraced single-level taxation as the standard for business tax…

By Michael Wursthorn As politicians and pundits continue to hammer the private equity industry during this election, the industry’s lobby group has culled public data from pension plans across…

Judge: “This data, coupled with the new interactive map, further demonstrates who benefits most from successful private equity investments – the teachers, policemen, firefighters and other…

Passthrough Proposal Would Reverse 30 Years of Tax Law Tax law expert, Professor Philip Postlewaite of Northwestern University, argues that recent proposals to tax passthrough businesses as…

The presidential election continues to bring unprecedented attention to private equity.  Never has it been more important for private equity to explain to policy makers in Washington what private…

It is the investors—the pensioners in a public or private pension fund, or the foundation that relies on high returns to continue operations. It is the companies that are made stronger, more…

By David Mook, head geek of Beachwood-based TMW Systems Inc. Watching from ground zero of presidential politicking, I, like most other Ohioans, can’t escape the torrent of campaign ads…

Private Equity International On the Record: Steve Judge of the PEGCC Steve Judge, president of the Private Equity Growth Capital Council, on the challenges of explaining private equity to US…

On Tuesday, new data from Cambridge Associates confirmed that private equity is an invaluable source of returns for investors such as pensions funds, charitable organizations and university…

Preqin’s recent August Spotlight analysis shows that investors in private equity – including pension funds, endowments and charitable foundations – earned superior returns compared to all other…

After experiencing a series of financial setbacks, Sunoco, Inc. was planning to close their refinery in Philadelphia.  As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the planned closure put 850 union jobs…