Categories: private equity

Tech Deal-Making Grinds to a Near-Halt

Posted by: Spencer Ante on March 10

I just got a hold of an illuminating (and depressing) report on tech deal-making through the first two months of 2009 from the Boston investment bank America’s Growth Capital. In…

KKR’s Nice Safe Bet on Sun

Posted by: Peter Burrows on January 29

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the original Barbarian at the Gate when it bought RJR Nabisco in the late 1980s, did a very different kind of deal the other day: it invested…

LBO Gang Eyes Silicon Valley. Hmm.

Posted by: Rob Hof on August 31

My colleagues Peter Burrows and Justin Hibbard have written a story on private-equity firms circling the Valley—an interesting analysis of why it may be time for some tech companies to…