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Entrepreneur September 2003 C.J. Prince	Got Leverage? If you're ready to sell, you've got the upper hand. Large buyout firms will be looking to entrepreneurs.
BusinessWeek October 30, 2006 Emily Thornton	Gluttons At The Gate Private equity are using slick new tricks to gorge on corporate assets. A story of excess.
BusinessWeek September 4, 2006 Roben Farzad	Sign Of An Apocalypse In Private Equity? In Private Equity? The notion of a Microsoft buyout may signal a market gone batty.
CFO April 1, 2007 Joseph McCafferty	The Buyout Binge Private-equity firms are gobbling up everything in sight. How long can it last?
The Motley Fool March 27, 2007 Joseph Khattab	Foolish Forum: Private Equity Fever Witty banter on the private equity frenzy, and what it means for investors.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2007 Emil Lee	Investing the KKR Way Although they operate on opposite ends of the capital-structure spectrum, private equity firm KKR and Warren Buffett have more in common than you might think. They invest in good companies led by talented managers.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2007 Tom Taulli	Dueling Fools: Private Equity Bear Rebuttal Huge amounts of private equity could mean big problems for investors.
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The Motley Fool July 7, 2008 Alex Dumortier	KKR Wants Your Money A spate of new hires has left buyout giant KKR looking more corporate and less clubby, signaling an IPO could be in the cards once more.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2007 Tom Taulli	Goldman: Into the Private Equity Stratosphere Goldman is expected to raise a $19 billion private equity fund, which should be a nice boost for the firm's bottom line. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2007 Tom Taulli	Barbarians for Sale The legendary private equity shop KKR announces plans to hit the street. Is this just an attempt to cash out at the peak in the market and dump shares on the unsuspecting public?
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Knowledge@Wharton	A Lecture You Don't Often Hear: How Smart People Lose Money Wall Street financier Perry Golkin of the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts talks about how smart people don't always get it right, using frank examples of his own firm's failed investments...
The Motley Fool March 22, 2005 Tom Taulli	Change of Heart at SunGard SunGard thought about splitting itself up; now it looks like management wants to sell everything. On the news, the company's stock price rose 24% to $31.07.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2007 Tom Taulli	Did Stub Equity Sink Harman's Deal? For once, this financial trend may actually stay dead. On its face, the Harman stub equity deal sounded like a good idea.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Your Move, Kravis Will the lackluster performance of Blackstone hamper other private equity offerings?
The Motley Fool July 29, 2008 Alex Dumortier	How to Become a KKR Partner Legendary buyout firm KKR is going public. Why now?
The Motley Fool September 25, 2006 Alex Dumortier	Beware of "Quick-Flip" IPOs Investors, IPOs on the heels of leveraged buyouts = risky business.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Tom Taulli	Private Equity's Nuclear Winter The Home Depot supply unit transaction is an example of what is happening in the private equity game. Lean times have arrived for Wall Street dealmakers, with private equity firms abandoning current deals and becoming gun-shy for future ones.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2005 Rich Smith	Hertz So Good Ford's rental unit looks to fetch a nice price. But other problems will still plague the automaker. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 10, 2007 Joe Magyer	The Golden Age of Private Equity? An interview with private-equity focused journalist Dan Primack.
The Motley Fool May 30, 2007 Tom Taulli	The VIP Ticket to a Buyout Deal Private equity firms are allowing shareholders to take part in mega-buyouts. Despite the advantages, investors need to realize that equity stubs are fairly rare for public shareholders.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2007 Tom Taulli	Blackstone Almighty By the end of the year, there could be a lot of private equity shares on public markets, and that may water down valuations. So, smart investors might want to bide their time on Blackstone.
CFO August 1, 2005 Kate O'Sullivan	Gone Clubbing As private-equity firms band together to buy large companies, they raise the pressure on CFOs.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2006 Alex Dumortier	AMVESCAP Goes Alternative A big deal for private equity: UK asset management firm AMVESCAP PLC agreed to purchase restructuring specialist WL Ross & Co., in a deal that could ultimately be worth $375 million over the next five years. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Should You Buy Blackstone? It's the first day of trading for Blackstone. Should you pile on? Take a deep breath, remove your finger from the "buy" button, and don't allow yourself to succumb to the hype.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2010 Alex Dumortier	This Much-Anticipated Stock Isn't for You For KKR, the LBO firm that was immortalized in Barbarians at the Gate, today marks the culmination of a long and circuitous road to a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Dueling Fools: Private Equity Bull Is the head-on private equity assault on the public markets good for investors?
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Dan Caplinger	The Lure of Private Equity The fact that private equity deals have become commonplace shows that private equity provides benefits to investors as well as to companies and their corporate managers.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Gail Edmondson	A Red Carpet For Americans As the pickings in the U.S. get lean, private equity groups have discovered that Europe is the land of opportunity.
The Motley Fool May 30, 2006 Tom Taulli	Are Tech Buyouts the Next Big Thing? Private equity funds have a treasure chest of cash. Does this bode well for the tech industry? While there are strong players in big tech, a buyout should be a possible bonus, not a driving factor, when deciding whether to buy the stock.
BusinessWeek September 17, 2007 Emily Thornton	Private Equity's White-Knuckle Deal Clayton Dubilier salvaged the Home Depot buyout - and showed how other big deals in the works can go forward.
HBS Working Knowledge October 11, 2006 Sean Silverthorne	The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts Reverse leveraged buyouts in general outperformed other IPOs and the market as a whole. Quick flips, however, are another story.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2007 David Lee Smith	GM's Divorce From Allison Gets a Flat The General Motors deal to arrange a leveraged buyout of its Allison Transmission division is delayed as the private equity group has trouble finding financing. Its one of many deals disrupted as investors grow increasingly wary of private equity deals.
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BusinessWeek August 5, 2010 Roger Lowenstein	Raise the Tax on Private Equity Why private equity, hardly the job creation machine its lobbyists claim it is, should be taxed at a higher rate.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2006 Tom Taulli	Open Solutions Is Going Dot-Com This nice growth business that provides software to financial institutions is so nice that two top private equity firms will buy it out. Investors, take note.
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Knowledge@Wharton February 12, 2003	Hard Days and Sleepless Nights for Private Equity Firms Today's business environment is similar in ways to the early 1990s when private equity firms rose up to restructure mountains of bad debt and went on to cash out in the ensuing bull market. But while opportunities exist, it is harder to make deals work than it was a decade ago.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Tom Taulli	KKR Hits DEFCON 1 on Harman KKR and Goldman Sachs' Capital Partners announce that it is ditching its $8 billion buyout of Harman International Industries, sending Harman's stock into a death spiral.
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