The Remington Factory based in Madison, North Carolina. Remington is a unit of the Freedom Group, owned by Cerberus Capital. Eliot Spitzer and a few others think that Cerberus Capital Management’s decision to sell Freedom Group is a good sign— that if you pair an enraged public with a tuned-in LP, you can force private equity [...]

See the full list of schools below.  You shouldn’t be surprised by this post’s title.  In private equity, after all, hiring alumni from top universities is a simple way to handle two issues that every firm faces:  (1) making investors (prospective or not) confident in its capacity to produce returns; (2) actually producing those returns. [...]

You’d be right to guess that New York City is the epicenter of private equity.  But that, it turns out, is like saying that the cradle of golf is the UK, not Scotland, or that Giants territory is California, not San Francisco.  See the map below? Not a single firm has its central office outside [...]

Truckstop Pilot Flying J takes the top spot as the largest pe-backed company in America. Culling Forbes’ annual list of America’s largest privately owned companies, it’s about time we revisited the largest of which are private equity-backed. End of the year and all that. Anyway, the list isn’t all that surprising, and it’s remarkably similar [...]

Alumacraft Boat Co., based in St. Peter, Minnesota, was purchased in early 2012 by New York City-based Corinthinian Capital. To help showcase data found in the PrivateEquityFirms.com database, we’re going to begin breaking down info on a state, sector, and country level. There are a number of ways to slice, dice, and filter info in the [...]

Yes, we’ve gone through a re-design. However that’s only part of the story as we’ve also gone ahead and rebuilt the entire backend of the site as well. It’s been a significant project, but we felt a re-build was the best way to take our increasingly popular platform to the next level. Don’t fret too much [...]

SEOMoz, the Saas startup focused on helping businesses get the most out of their online web presences announced last week that it had raised an $18 million Series B from existing investor Ignition Partners, as well as new investor, Foundry Group. Funding announcements aren’t terribly interesting as most most press releases don’t provide any insight [...]

A few weeks ago, we achieved a small milestone here at PrivateEquityFirms.com – crossing the ‘magical’ (at least for us) 2,000 firm barrier.  2,000 certainly doesn’t make us ‘complete’, however it’s important to note that we’re constantly adding new firms and aren’t looking to let up anytime soon.

SecondMarket and SharesPost serve to facilitate the purchase and sale of illiquid assets and are the largest such exchanges in the rapidly emerging secondary marketplace field (other exchanges include DebtMarket, a specialist in loans and Liquidnet, a recent entrant into the trading of private company shares).  While both SecondMarket and SharesPost deal with the private sale of [...]

When private equity firms hunt for acquisitions, they look for business characteristics that minimize risk as they build value and position for a potential exit.  All investment firms break down the key traits that interest them the most.  The challenge of course is finding what they want at a reasonable multiple.   So what business [...]