Financial sponsors like Texas Pacific Group made up just 9% of the volume, compared with 27% last year.
David Bonderman, founder of Texas Pacific Group, will rejoin the board of WaMu, where he was a director until 2002.
David Bonderman heads Texas Pacific Group, the U.S. private equity firm that has been making waves in Europe.
Silver Lake, with Texas Pacific Group, has provided much of the inspiration for today's private-equity love-in with tech.
Morgan and Newbridge Capital, a private equity firm backed by Texas Pacific Group.
But also because Grohe is owned by two private equity firms, TPG (Texas Pacific Group) and CSFB (Credit Suisse First Boston).
The country's number one airline was courted by Sydney-based Macquarie Bank and American private equity giant Texas Pacific Group last Wednesday .
The nightmare lasted until 2002, when the Jains got a partner in Texas Pacific Group's Aqua Fund, which invests in water and renewable energy.
Around this time Texas Pacific Group, a private equity firm, came in and purchased the limping airline that was committing suicide before our eyes.
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"Clearly there's greater upside potential in the highly leveraged companies, " says William Price, a partner with financier David Bonderman in Fort Worth-based Texas Pacific Group.
Bloomberg reported that one executive - deputy president of Coca-Cola's Pacific Group, Paul Etchells - opened an email he thought was from the company's chief executive.
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The fund is one of the largest in African private equity, and it was mobilized by Nigerian proprietors Tope Lawani and Babatunde Soyeye, both former staff of Texas Pacific Group.
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Goldman and TPG, formerly known as Texas Pacific Group, may have acted quickly because the current conditions of debt financing meant that a buyout could be supported by inexpensive debt.
On Monday TXU announced that it had entered into an agreement to be purchased by an investor group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group.
Analysts have also mentioned handset maker Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) and private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners as possible acquirers.
Lee Partners, Texas Pacific Group and Apollo Management, either dropped out or didn't submit a bid at all by the end of 2006, when Tribune hoped to make a decision on selling.
Spirit - backed by private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and CVC Capital Partners as well as US investment bank Blackstone - saw off rival bids from pubs group Laurel and Japanese bank Nomura.
Further consultation meetings are planned, including with countries of Asia and the Pacific Group (ASPAC), to be held after the information meeting with the Member States of the Executive Board, and also with the Group of Arab States.
On Monday TXU (nyse: TXU - news - people ) announced that it had entered into an agreement to be purchased by an investor group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group.
David Bonderman and Jim Coulter of TPG (Texas Pacific Group) ultimately made ten times their money on the investment in a sagging Continental Airlines, but their profits were clearly a function of making the flying experience infinitely better for customers.
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Now owned by a private equity group, which includes Texas Pacific Group, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, the burger maker named Gregory Brenneman chief executive last week (see: "Greg Brenneman's New Kingdom"), their ninth CEO in 15 years.
He claims that two private equity firms, Texas Pacific Group and Apax Partners, committed securities fraud by driving down the stock price of a Greek company listed on Nasdaq that his fund had a stake in and hiding a potentially higher takeover offer.
Managed by the Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and funded by the European Commission, this four-year pilot project implemented jointly by the ILO, UNCTAD and UNESCO aims to strengthen the creative industries in Fiji, Mozambique, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago and Zambia.
All four of the major proxy voting services have recommended the ousting of various directors at Washington Mutual (nyse: WM - news - people ), a Seattle thrift that earlier this week announced a bigger-than-expected first-quarter loss and an infusion of capital from Texas Pacific Group as it tries to repair its battered mortgage-laden balance sheet.
Even Richard Li and his Pacific Century group seem slow off the mark in the Net world.
Chiang joined Goodbaby's board and stayed on after AIG and other investors sold their stakes to the Pacific Alliance Group in 2006.
These strands came together in 1999 in the Cyberport project, a property development disguised as an information-technology initiative, negotiated with the Pacific Century Group of Li Ka-shing, the most redoubtable of Hong Kong tycoons.
PERS, with 1.2m members, and the Pacific Business Group on Health, an alliance of 45 large employers that buys health benefits for 3m people, demanded, and for four years up to 1998 won, successive reductions in premiums.
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Sarin, who comes from a military family, is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Berkeley and started his career as a management consultant, before moving to San Francisco's Pacific Telesis Group in 1984.
Big news this week from behemoth bond fund group Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO).
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