http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/peter_lattmanArticles by PETER LATTMAN, aggregated by daylife.comen-usMon, 23 Nov 2009 22:56:01 GMTMon, 23 Nov 2009 22:56:01 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comhttp://voices.allthingsd.com/20090414/kkr-warburg-providence-and-elevation-surface-in-skype-bid/?mod=ATD_rssA quartet of private-equity firms have joined forces for a leveraged buyout of a global telecommunications firm with hundreds of millions of users. And no, this isn’t a blog post from 2006. A group including KKR, Warburg Pincus, Providence and ...Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:31:32 GMThttp://voices.allthingsd.com/20090414/kkr-warburg-providence-and-elevation-surface-in-skype-bid/?mod=ATD_rssSkypeeBay Inc.Dow JonesWall Street Journalhttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/law/feed/~3/_pNq5Qdmefc/Is there a more perfect name in the legal world — or in any world for that matter? How can it possibly be that one of the most influential judges in U.S. history (pictured, left) has the name Learned Hand? Coming across it for the first time, we ...Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:17:55 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/law/feed/~3/_pNq5Qdmefc/Facebook Inc.Harvard UniversityHawkins, Inc.Alex Kozinskihttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/394293071/Sitting here amid a standing-room-only crowd of about 600 in the Waldorf Astoria’s grand ballroom at the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Conference, you wouldn’t know the financial markets are convulsing. Is everyone here because all is swell in PE ...Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:18:54 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/394293071/Lehman BrothersTPG, N.V.Dow JonesMerrill LynchClear Channel Communications, Inc.http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/386856003/Hello from Wilmington, Delaware! For the rest of America, it is the home of Joe Biden. For the Deal Journal, it is the site of our favorite busted buyout battle royal. Fourteen months after Apollo Management-owned Hexion Specialty Chemicals agreed to ...Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:26:22 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/386856003/Joe BidenHexion Specialty ChemicalsBarry DillerHarry ReasonerHarvard Universityhttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/338996232/The gloves came off long ago in this busted buyout battle royale. In one corner, Apollo Management’s Josh Harris, the New York financier. In the other, Jon Huntsman, Utah industrialist. For about a month now the sides have been slugging it out, punch ...Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:16:28 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/338996232/Hexion Specialty ChemicalsRohm & Haashttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/329804139/The WSJ’s editorial page has set up a little crossfire debate with big implications. The issue: Should Washington loosen the restrictions on private-equity investments into banks? Carlyle says private-equity firms, which have “demonstrated the ability ...Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:05:16 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/329804139/Washington Mutual, Inc.TPG, N.V.http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/319851420/If we were playing a word-association game and you said “John Paulson,” we’d say “rich.” Paulson, after all, is the hedge-fund honcho who reaped $3 billion–$3 billion!–shorting the mortgage market. But rich wasn’t among the adjectives recently used by ...Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:29:24 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/319851420/http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/319725556/Apollo v. Huntsman. The New York financiers versus the Utah industrialists. It’s a busted buyout battle royale, and we are bringing it to you live from Deal Journal headquarters in lower Manhattan. A quick backgrounder for those preoccupied with the ...Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:22:40 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/319725556/http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/315706048/Diapers might have come in handy at D.E. Shaw Wednesday night after the hedge-fund giant read about the lawsuit that Apollo Management filed against Huntsman. Apollo asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to excuse its chemical company Hexion Specialty ...Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:58:18 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/315706048/Hexion Specialty ChemicalsHuntsman Corporationhttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/314062827/An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers. With all the doom and gloom in PE land, we thought we would share a happy, profitable tale. The headline: Publicly traded Reliance Steel & Aluminum acquires PNA Group for $1.1 billion. Our headline: ...Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:25:05 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/deals/feed/~3/314062827/Barack ObamaGlobal Crossing Ltd.