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Blackstone Becomes First $1tr Private Equity Manager

Private Equity Insights

It rose to prominence with leveraged buyouts, the kinds of transactions made famous by “Barbarians at the Gate” and other chronicles of 1980s finance. read more Bain Capital raises SoftwareOne takeover offer to $3.7bn, Bloomberg reports Bain Capital has increased its offer for SoftwareOne Holding AG to about 3.2bn Swiss francs.