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CEO CAPITOL HILL DAY
Chris Abraham, CEO of Service King (a Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group portfolio company) and Congressman Pete Sessions…
Debevoise & Plimpton on Cybersecurity: Reducing Threats to Private Equity Firms and Their Portfolio Companies
By: Jeffrey P. Cunard and James Pastore
Like other businesses today, private equity firms and their portfolio companies increasingly face serious data security threats – for example, from…
PEGCC Q3 2014 Performance Update: Private Equity Investments Best S&P 500 Over Long-Term
WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to the most recent quarterly Performance Update Report from the Private Equity Growth Capital Council (PEGCC), over a 10-year horizon, returns from private equity…
2014 Private Equity Exit Volume Highest Level on Record
Investment Volume, Dry Powder, and Other Metrics Show Year-to-Year Growth
WASHINGTON – The Private Equity Growth Capital Council’s (PEGCC) Trends Report for the fourth quarter of 2014 was…
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The SEC’s Year of Enforcement
By: John Sikora Jr., Partner, Latham & Watkins, LLP
What Is a Private Equity Fund Manager to Make of the SEC’s Year in Enforcement?
In reviewing the results of SEC Enforcement’s fiscal…
Reuters: The state of private equity
This piece originally ran in PE HUB, an interactive forum for the global private equity community.
By Steve Judge
All eyes were on our financial institutions during the financial crisis. It was a…
Why Airlines Are Flying High
This piece was originally published in the Wall Street Journal on February 4, 2015.
By Rick Schifter
Over the past two weeks, one U.S. airline after another has reported record earnings for 2014….