Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. Although financial engineering is always a way of making ...

Sherman McCoy, the lead character in the 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, was described as a “master of the universe” due to his role as the highest-earning bond trader at his ...

In her new book Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back. Twelve million people in ...

The Private Equity and M&A Outlook Roundtable is produced by the LA Times Studios team in conjunction with GHJ; Holland & Knight LLP; and Polsinelli LLP. After the many unprecedented operational ...

Private equity (PE) firms are particularly interested in rapid value realization from investments in portfolio companies. They “buy to sell,” typically purchasing companies they believe are ...

We surveyed our deep network of private equity managers for insights on the impacts of President Trump’s tariff announcements. We believe that private equity portfolios are typically less directly ...