Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) has appointed Christopher Sullivan as a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice in the Corporate Department based in London. A cross-border M&A specialist, Sullivan joins from Clifford Chance where he led the UK private equity practice.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And I had no work experience in anything.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And the entire merger department of Goldman Sachs in 1983 was 32 people. Michael Fisch : 00:05:39 [Speaker Changed] Well, in the time that I was working at Goldman Sachs in mergers, there were a bunch of big public companies who were on, we were on m and a retainer, they call it. 00:14:44 [Speaker Changed] Huh.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble.

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