And we think the private-equity model will give them the chance to do that.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Patient Capital’] Reference

If that happens, KKR and other private-equity firms are the natural buyers.    From Wordnik.com.  [AN ICON, READY FOR A TAKEOVER] Reference

For private-equity firms, going public has been like traversing a minefield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarian No More] Reference

One of the virtues of a private-equity group is that we try to be imaginative.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Patient Capital’] Reference

It was Matthew Nimetz, a private-equity investor and former undersecretary of state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spitzer in Exile] Reference

However, private-equity firms now account for nearly one in three mergers or acquisitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Brokers] Reference

Bankers proved similarly accommodating to corporations, especially to private-equity firms.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Fools Rush In, The Joke's on Them] Reference

In Wall Street's pecking order the partners in private-equity firms are the true aristocrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxing the Super Rich] Reference

Oil exporters are creating more-sophisticated investment vehicles such as private-equity funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Brokers] Reference

Charles Kaye, CEO of the global private-equity firm Warburg Pincus, lived in Hong Kong for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recession’s Real Winner] Reference

We've even overlooked the fact that private-equity and hedge-fund managers pay only a 15 percent tax rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Rich, From America] Reference

It may be true that private-equity firms would pass along at least some of their tax increases as higher fees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxing the Super Rich] Reference

It has concluded alliances with major private-equity firms and put experienced foreign managers in pivotal positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracing for a Rough Patch] Reference

And some are starting to act like private-equity funds, amassing big stakes in blue chips and buying entire companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exec Desperately Seeks SWF] Reference

Hedge-fund and private-equity managers have been among the most overcompensated executives in the history of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hedgehogs Ravaged by Bears] Reference

Investors in private-equity funds include wealthy individuals, insurance companies, college endowments and pension funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Investor: The Puzzle of Private Equity] Reference

The nation's most solvent individuals — private-equity barons — have not been immune from the ill effects of the credit crunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borrowers Are Out In the Cold] Reference

As for hedge funds and private-equity firms, many are entering the mainstream, going public and adopting better reporting standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Brokers] Reference

And, my sources say, within the past year KKR and at least one other private-equity firm have approached AT&T about buying the company.    From Wordnik.com.  [AN ICON, READY FOR A TAKEOVER] Reference

To listen to the lobbyists hired by the private-equity firms, such a tax hike would, at a minimum, directly hurt regular working people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxing the Super Rich] Reference

The clout of private-equity firms has grown to hard-to-imagine heights: Chrysler was just bought by Cerberus, a hitherto-obscure private-equity firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxing the Super Rich] Reference

Last year, GM sold controlling interest in its finance business, GMAC, to Cerberus Capital Management, the private-equity player that also owns Chrysler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Ford Pull Ahead?] Reference

The shadow banking system — unregulated financial institutions like Wall Street banks, hedge funds, and private-equity firms — flooded into the sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston’s Incredible Shrinking Skyscraper] Reference

"There's virtually no securitization here," says one senior private-equity investor in the U.A.E., who asked not to be named so he could speak more frankly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doubts About Dubai] Reference

The current poster boy — or target — of the private-equity world is Steve Schwarzman, recently dubbed by Fortune Magazine as the "New King of Wall Street.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxing the Super Rich] Reference

And banks and private-equity firms — and retailers and technology companies — are hooking up with the hottest thing on the international dating scene: SWFs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exec Desperately Seeks SWF] Reference

The recent tightening of credit markets has complicated the financing of some recent buyout deals and may dampen the flow of investor money into private-equity firms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Brokers] Reference

When private-equity firms bought companies, they didn't always pursue returns by coming up with better long-term plans to make widgets, sell mattresses, or run hotels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of Balance] Reference

But "the PV industry surprised people over the last three years with the speed at which costs dropped," says Cornelius, who is now at Hudson Clean Energy, a private-equity firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution Of An Eco-Prophet] Reference

Kravis was the enfant terrible of Wall Street during the 1980s, and his so-called leveraged buyouts of companies like Safeway and Duracell presaged today's private-equity craze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarian No More] Reference