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Hundred-Million-Dollar-Hall Looking For New Billions
Nov 19, 2009, 4:15pm
Posted by Jon Shazar
Castle Hallenstein: Home Sweet HomeCitigroup's former $100 million man has been freed from the tyranny of life as a serf under Czar Kenneth I. But if he wants to keep the nine-figure bonus checks rolling in under his new masters...
What Was Ken Griffin Doing At Blackstone Today?
Sep 30, 2009, 6:30pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Being indoctrinated into the $4 million crab claw club? Your guess is as good as mine. Wildly speculate away....
The Men In Tights Defense
Feb 11, 2009, 12:02pm
Posted by Equity Private
Say what you will about Marc Dreier, yes, ok, so he was into that whole "Yale thing," but he sure know how to pick victims. The list of his stingees has grown to include Amaranth Group Inc., Perella Weinberg Partners...
Now You've Done It. You Pissed Off Steve.
Jan 14, 2009, 1:18pm
Posted by Equity Private
I am both saddened and outraged to have to tell you that the SEC has brought a civil complaint today against Ramesh Chakrapani in our Corporate Advisory Services Group, charging him with passing on inside information three years ago about...
Called The PE Top Or Late To The Game
Nov 06, 2008, 10:57am
Posted by Equity Private
Lots of us speculated at the time that Blackstone's IPO was rather talented timing. Others claimed the IPO of a LBO firm was a bit of tricky hypocrisy. (If public markets are so awful, why are you gleefully availing yourself...
The Only Thing Worse Than A Backhanded Compliment Is A Crabhanded One
Sep 08, 2008, 1:34pm
Posted by Bess Levin
LAST month, as Henry R. Kravis, the co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, and his wife, Marie-Josée, took their seats at the Water Cube in Beijing for a session of synchronized diving at the Olympics, they quickly recognized a...
The Pete Peterson Hook Up
Aug 27, 2008, 4:12pm
Posted by Bess Levin
We've always wanted to be friends with Blackstone co-founder Pete Peterson because he's sure to have some side-splitting tales about watching Steve Schwarzman try to masturbate and/or sleep in a water bed, two activities which, anatomically speaking, are damn near...
What The Weather Channel Deal Says About Buyout Economy
Posted in Buyouts, Jul 07, 2008, 10:42am
Posted by John Carney
After a few months in the spring in which the credit crunch appeared to ease, the vise has tightened once again. Nothing illustrates this better than the financing for the acquisition of the Weather Channel. NBC Universal, which is a...
George Carlin's Influence On Tennis Playing Steve Schwarzman
Jun 23, 2008, 1:52pm
Posted by Bess Levin
As you, but not Yahoo!, know, George Carlin died yesterday. In his role as Kennedy Center chair, Steve Schwarzman said of Carlin, who was named the winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, "...[he] not only made us...
Nude Artist Appeals To Wall Street Titans' Raging Narcissism
Jun 23, 2008, 12:32pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Natasha Archdale is a genius. The London-based artist, who charges up to $30,000 per piece, allows her clients, the majority of whom work in the financial industry, to purport masturbatory feelings for loved ones while craftily hiding their true agenda,...
Schwarzman's Jokes Not Offensive Enough To Ruin Business Opps
Posted in Steve Schwarzman, May 13, 2008, 3:20pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Less than a week after Steve Schwarzman’s Nagasaki joke bombed in Boca (of his failure to get the loan money to buy mortgage company PHH, Crab Hands said, “Trying to buy a mortgage bank in the midst of the subprime...
Taking Private, Public
Apr 29, 2008, 10:33am
Posted by Equity Private
What do you do when your private equity returns are dwindling because you have billions of idle cash sitting around and no deals to invest in? Invest in public equities, of course. Well, "of course," is sort of strong, particularly...
Currency and Crab Legs
Apr 21, 2008, 3:53pm
Posted by Equity Private
It almost seems like there are three kinds of pending buyouts. The deals where the financial sponsors want out, the deals where the lenders want out, and the deals where both want out. Where Alliance Data Systems sits among these...
Only A Matter Of Time
Apr 16, 2008, 2:30pm
Posted by Equity Private
It had to happen eventually, I suppose. Annoyed with the lack of transparency exhibited by Blackstone (because how could anyone know that place wasn't a fishbowl of transparency?) an investor in the firm has decided to sue. Color us surprised....
