Articles Written by:    PETER LATTMAN     

« Previous  |  Next »

KKR, Warburg, Providence and Elevation Surface in Skype Bid [Voices]

A 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 ...

From PETER LATTMAN, All Things Digital,  14 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Skype,  eBay Inc.,  Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Knowing Your Learned Foote From Your Learned Hand

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 ...

From PETER LATTMAN, Wall Street Journal,  10 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Harvard University,  Hawkins, Inc.,  Alex Kozinski

Getting Reflective About Private Equity and the Financial Crisis

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 ...

From PETER LATTMAN, Wall Street Journal,  16 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Lehman Brothers,  TPG, N.V.,  Dow Jones,  Merrill Lynch,  Clear Channel Communications, Inc.

Huntsman v Hexion: The Exciting Solvency Opinion Testimony!

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 ...

From PETER LATTMAN, Wall Street Journal,  8 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  Hexion Specialty Chemicals,  Barry Diller,  Harry Reasoner,  Harvard University

Does Huntsman Have Apollo on the Ropes?

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 ...

From PETER LATTMAN, Wall Street Journal,  18 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Hexion Specialty Chemicals,  Rohm & Haas

Can Private Equity Save Banks? Should PE Save Banks?

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 ...

From PETER LATTMAN, Wall Street Journal,  8 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Washington Mutual, Inc.,  TPG, N.V.

Hedge-Fund Honcho Paulson and the Slings & Arrows of a Canadian Judge

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 ...

From PETER LATTMAN, Wall Street Journal,  25 Jun 2008

Apollo v. Huntsman: The Busted Buyout Battle Royale

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 ...

From PETER LATTMAN, Wall Street Journal,  25 Jun 2008

Merger Arbs: The Hexion-Huntsman Horror Show

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 ...

From PETER LATTMAN, Wall Street Journal,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Hexion Specialty Chemicals,  Huntsman Corporation

How to Earn 25X in Two Years, by Platinum Equity

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: ...

From PETER LATTMAN, Wall Street Journal,  17 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Global Crossing Ltd.

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry

Enter a url from sourcewatch.org or wikipedia.org:


recommend removal

close