private equity industry

About nine members of Goldman Sachs Group proprietary trading team are joining private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts after entertaining offers from investment firms such as Perella Weinberg and Blackrock.

A number of private equity groups may be interested in bookstore chain Barnes & Noble (BKS), Reuters reported. Private equity firms including Bain Capital and Apollo are interested in "taking a look" at the company, Reuters said without naming its sources. Barnes & Noble, which has a...

Just a year ago, private equity was frozen amid fear that the global economic system would fall into the abyss. While the world avoided that worst-case scenario and growth hasn't exactly roared back, the world economy is perking up -- and so is dealmaking.

The next time you take a bite of a Carvel ice-cream cake, you'd better make sure you earned it. The company that owns it, Roark Capital Group, is an Atlanta-based private equity fund named for the virtuously selfish architect concocted by writer and philosopher -- and master of neither writing nor...

Despite tumultuous global financial market conditions, private equity investments in the clean technology ("cleantech") space showed resilience last year. Investors are reconsidering their overall exposures to private equity -- and this includes cleantech -- but they are still operating in the...