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Distressed debt: Gaining control of companies in crisis

Excerpts: Distressed debt: Gaining control of companies in crisis A growing market thus beckons for financial investors specializing in cases of capital reorganization. The objective of such investors is to gain control over a business enterprise requiring a capital reorganization to safeguard it against insolvency through a capital restructuring and by the implementation of a […]

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Excerpts: John Macks’s Letter to Shareholders

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Excerpts: John Mack’s Letter to Shareholders dated February 1, 2006 We will take full advantage of our global scale and our world-class franchise by further integrating our businesses and putting more of our own capital to work in principal investments. We are employing more of our own equity capital to work in principal investing, both

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Notes from Joel Greenblatt’s Special Situation Class

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Excerpts: Notes from Joel Greenblatt’s Special Situation Class Market prices fluctuate more than values–so therein lies the opportunity. Why are prices of each company so variable and volatile compared to the value of companies? People invest with their emotions. They process information differently. It is very clear—pick any company you want–the price is very volatile

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John Malone Rides High as Cable Cowboy Remakes Pay TV, Again

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Excerpts: John Malone Rides High as Cable Cowboy Remakes Pay TV, Again “There is no one better able to come back in right now, take the reins over, than this guy,” Leo Hindery, who headed Malone’s Tele-Communications Corp before it was sold to AT&T in 1999, said in a phone interview from New York. “You

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Excerpts: Foreigners Become Bank Heads The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) has approved the appointment of John Langlois and Jeffrey Williams to lead the Shenzhen Development Bank, the Shenzhen-listed bank announced on Friday. Langlois, a former Morgan Stanley banker in China, will represent Newbridge Asia AIV as the chairman of the Shenzhen-based lender. Newbridge, a

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Excerpt: Americans named to head Chinese bank The appointment of incoming chairman John Langlois, a Morgan Stanley officer in China, comes as part of a transfer of a nearly 18 percent stake in state-owned Shenzhen Bank to U.S. firm Newbridge Capital Ltd. Both men have considerable experience with the Chinese banking industry. Williams opened Citigroup

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Excerpts: KKR gets $1B for KinderCare New York leveraged buyout house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has struck a deal to sell childcare center operator KinderCare Learning Centers Inc. to a subsidiary of Michael Milken’s and Larry Ellison’s Knowledge Universe Inc. for $1.04 billion in cash and assumed debt. KKR, which took control of KinderCare

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Excerpts: “KKR Strikes (Gold) Again.” Legendary leveraged-buyout (LBO) firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts struck gold on Friday, as a company in which it owns nearly an 80% interest, child-care and preschool operator KinderCare (OTC BB: KDCR.OB), announced it will be acquired by privately held Knowledge Learning in a transaction set to close before the end of

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Excerpt: Paul Hastings Expands Corporate Practice With Addition of Partner Gregg Vignos Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce today that Gregg Vignos, previously at Pillsbury Winthrop, has joined the Paul Hastings Corporate Department, resident in the San Francisco office. Source: Paul Hastings

The Pre-History of Simmons Hall

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Excerpt: The Pre-History of Simmons Hall There was also a small matter involving a lawsuit filed by your neighbor. The owner of Cambridge Executive Enterprises, the company headquartered right next door on Vassar Street, is a man named John Donovan. I don’t know too much about him, except that he is a former MIT professor

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