It also asked boroughs to encourage council buildings and private shops to join a scheme to open their facilities to the public.
The state's drab department stores may be reporting poor retail sales, but snazzier, private shops in big cities are doing a rollicking trade.
Some private equity shops have become so influential that they are driving established banks out of the business.
The ability of private equity shops to manufacture big IPO exits appears to have been overstated.
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At three private equity shops, Apollo Global, TPG Capital and Leonard Green, are in talks.
Among private equity shops, billionaire Wilbur Ross and Marathon Asset Management are both investing in distressed subprime mortgages.
In large part this is due to private equity shops taking advantage of the cheap financing to undertake huge deals.
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Investors are also suspicious of private equity shops because these companies are partnerships whose first allegiance is to the investors in their funds, not in their firms.
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It turns out, to his surprise Lerner said, that private equity shops are holding companies longer than before, are no more likely to put a company through bankruptcy than other owners, and over three years are no more likely to cut jobs than other company owners.
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Since mid-March, in a series of surprise raids, the police have seized over 5, 000 artefacts from private homes and shops.
Pension-fund investors complain that these can lead to huge differences in different private-equity shops' valuations of similar stakes in the same company.
That rise is in keeping with a trend of strong performance lately from deals backed by private-equity shops, which buy companies with an eye toward revamping them, or by venture-capital firms, which tend to invest in startups.
Abeler would collect rings from myriad sources and locations auctions, antique shops, private hands and foreign lands.
The exchanges and public markets are now used as exit ramps and liquidity dumps once the real money has been made by the well-connected private investors and LBO shops.
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Mr Cohen predicts that department stores will respond by creating stand-alone shops for their private-label brands and selling their wares in other stores.
In non-right to work states, private sector workers employed in union shops are required to join the union as a condition of employment.
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Doug Lowenstein, who runs the Private Equity Council, the industry's lobby group, says that the tax change could wreck buy-out shops by discouraging young talent from going into private equity and driving buy-out firms to relocate to countries that offer more favourable tax treatment.
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And just as employees in the private sector often work from home or coffee shops, so do state employees.
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The project includes a hotel, restaurants and shops on site as well as a private club for residents with a spa, sports facilities, a cinema, a yoga studio and a library.
It began with small, maverick family-owned mom-and-pop shops that overcame struggles to raise meager amounts of private capital.
Amid the dozens of private art galleries on Insadong street you will find tiny craft shops bursting with creativity (check out the four-storey Ssamzie complex) - look for pale green celadon vases, pen-and-ink drawings and calligraphy, and world-class stitching at Kukjae Embroidery.
Mark Goldman, who runs two retail shops and a wholesale distribution center, has the largest private collection of them in the U.S. Goldman keeps 100 of these imposing sculptures in the lower Manhattan loft he built as a combo home and private display space.
Buyout shops usually like to point out that American workers benefit when private equity funds score big returns because pension funds are some of the biggest investors in private equity funds.
The Private Equity Council, a lobbying outfit that represents ten of the biggest buyout shops, including Blackstone and Carlyle, got up and running in February.
He said people needed to support local services, including shops, community events, pubs and restaurants, and all other public and private companies working in the town.
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