But one wonders why Carlyle would now want to backtrack on the investment that Virgin Media has already put into rebranding itself.
Mr. Yang: One of the things Carlyle has done since the beginning is to emphasize localization.
One such, the Carlyle Group, is nosing around the European aerospace industry in search of bargains.
Carlyle was one of the first firms to go into China, for instance, and the first American firm to raise a yuan-denominated private-equity fund, but it now faces competition from other American firms there, and Chinese ones as well.
One thing that Blackstone and Carlyle could do, should they purchase Gamestop, is to essentially repackage the company to be lucrative for a strategic buyer.
If that makes you wary, there is a third option, one that involves neither selling nor buying Carlyle itself.
The same approach has now been adopted by at least one of KKR's rivals, the Carlyle Group.
It can help protect Carlyle's profits, because even if one of its portfolio companies files for bankruptcy, as five of them did during the crisis, it will not drag down the returns of other funds.
China has already produced blockbuster deals for Carlyle, including its investment in China Pacific Insurance, one of the greatest private equity deals ever.
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The Full Monty was one of the biggest British cinema hits of the 1990s and starred Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson and Hugo Speer.
"I think we saw one team last night and a totally different team tonight, " Toronto coach Randy Carlyle said.
The Carlyle Hotel's Bemelmans bar is perhaps the stuffiest of New York's hotel bars, and one that requires a cover charge after 9:30 pm when various jazz musicians perform.
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