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Carlyle Emerges As Bidder For Gas Natural Assets - Sources
Wall Street Journal, The | 2 days 28 minutes ago
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES MADRID (Dow Jones)--U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group L.P. has emerged as a bidder for a bundle of gas assets put up for sale by Spain's Gas Natural SDG SA (GAS.MC), people familiar with the situation said Friday.

Carlyle Invests Over $60 Mln In 3 China High-Growth Companies
Wall Street Journal, The | 3 days 3 hours 16 minutes ago
HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Private equity-firm Carlyle Group L.P. said Thursday it invested more than US$60 million in three Chinese high-growth companies, four months after it closed its fourth Asian growth fund.

Carlyle Offers To Buy Japanese Restaurant Chain For Y21.8 Bln
Wall Street Journal, The | 13 days 22 minutes ago
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES U.S. private-equity firm Carlyle Group L.P. said Friday it intends to acquire Japanese restaurant chain Chimney Co. (3362.TO) through a Y21.8 billion management buyout.

UPDATE: Carlyle: China Most Attractive Private-Equity Destination
Wall Street Journal, The | 13 days 22 minutes ago
(Adds Rubenstein's comment on IPO.) By Denis McMahon and Rick Carew BEIJING (Dow Jones)--China offers unrivaled opportunities for private-equity investment because of its fast-growing economy and the sector's low penetration there, Carlyle Group L.P.'s co-founder and managing director, David Rubenstein, said Monday.

Interview: Bloomberg's Pearlstine: Buying BusinessWeek Matches Need And Desire
Reuters | 39 days 7 hours 28 minutes ago
Last October, Bloomberg Chief Content Officer Norm Pearlstine told our Future of Business Media conference that the company was willing to look at acquisitions but, in the immediate future, wouldn’t be making “the major kind of acquisition that gets written about.” No, that took a year and it’s one that we’ll still be writing about next October.

Private Equity Often Hurts Companies, Is the Economy Next?
Wall Street Journal, The | 24 days 7 hours 29 minutes ago
In the early days of the credit crisis, a few of us on Wall Street and in the media, myself included, worried that the imminent blow to the markets and economy would come, not from mortgage-related debt, but corporate debt, specifically the debt used to finance the private-equity buyout boom.

OCTOBER 29, 2009, 12:02 A.M. ET Barbarians and the Next Financial Crisis Private Equity Often Hurts Companies, Is the Economy Next?
Barron's (subscription required) | 24 days 7 hours 8 minutes ago
In the early days of the credit crisis, a few of us on Wall Street and in the media, myself included, worried that the imminent blow to the markets and economy would come, not from mortgage-related debt, but corporate debt, specifically the debt used to finance the private-equity buyout boom.

'Brazen' BankUnited recruiting pitch comes with own cheeky resignation letter
St. Petersburg Times (Fla.) | 16 days 19 hours 48 minutes ago
Wake up and good morning. Amid all the bank failures in Florida and the country, there's some unorthodox and humorous business recruiting by at least one revitalized bank: BankUnited in Florida. (Photo: FDIC shutters BankUnited in May, by AP.)