Before Bonderman founded Texas Pacific, he was the chief operating officer of the Bass Group.
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.
The buyout of TXU Corp. last year took place after KKR and Texas Pacific dropped plans for eight such plants.
But also because Grohe is owned by two private equity firms, TPG (Texas Pacific Group) and CSFB (Credit Suisse First Boston).
Among companies now benefiting from the frenzy: Spain's Iberia Airlines, up 26% since rumors of a Texas Pacific bid began in March.
Continental emerged from bankruptcy in a much stronger position, and Texas Pacific's stake was therefore worth ten times what it paid for it.
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.
Meanwhile, US private equity firm Texas Pacific, which last month gobbled up hamburger giant Burger King from Diageo, is also reported to be looking at Safeway.
Contrast this with last October's buy-out of Neiman Marcus, a Dallas icon and a rival of Macy's, led by Texas Pacific and Warburg Pincus, two private-equity firms.
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.
If Texas Pacific does as well out of the deal as it did when Continental, another US airline, went bankrupt, it will be laughing all the way to the bank.
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.
Despite the news, Diageo is expected to go ahead later this month with the sale of its fast-food hamburger business to a group led by Texas Pacific, an American private-equity firm.
TXU, Texas's main power-generator, led the company to abandon eight out of 11 planned coal-fired power stations because the private equity firm concerned, Texas Pacific, wanted to square the environmental movement.
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.
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.
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