Rafat Ali
Feb 24, 2009 7:36 AM
Steve Rattner, the political and corporate financier and the founder of media PE and hedge fund Quadrangle Group, is officially leaving the firm as its main principle to join the Treasury Department as a lead adviser on the auto-industry bailout. This is not quite the car czar position as some…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 21, 2008 10:26 PM
Alpha Media, the Quadrangle-owned media company that is holding for Maxim Magazine and Blender, may be turned over to the creditors, reports WSJ, another bad sign for the media investment fund by Steve Rattner. Last week came the news that Quadrangle was closing down its media hedge fund. Things have…
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David Kaplan
Nov 13, 2008 8:52 AM
Hammered by the media downturn, Steve Rattner’s Quadrangle Group is closing down its media hedge fund with losses approaching 25 percent this year, WSJ reported. Quadrangle Equity Investors, run by Robert Donahue, opened in 2006 to invest in publicly traded media and communications stocks; it handled about $500 million in…
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Rafat Ali
Aug 29, 2008 12:43 AM
In a complex and slightly confusing transaction, Greenfield Online, the online market research and surveys company, which earlier this week rejected a bid by media PE firm Quadrangle, is now being bought by an unlikely buyer: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), for about $486 million, $60 million more than the previous bid.…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Aug 26, 2008 8:00 AM
We’re mainly covering this one due to the jilted buyer… Greenfield Online, a provider of online market research, says it’s nixing its sale to media PE firm Quadrangle. The company had already indicated that it received a potentially higher offer than the $426 million or $15.50 per share it was…
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Rafat Ali
Jun 16, 2008 10:43 AM
Not a target company we usually cover, but the buyer is closely followed in the media industry: Greenfield Online, the online market research and surveys company, is being bought by media and communications PE firm Quadrangle Group, for $426 million. Quadrangle will pay $15.50 for each Greenfield share, a 17…
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Rafat Ali
May 27, 2008 1:32 PM
This weekend we reported that a private equity firm was in discussions to take a minority stake in CNET Networks (NSDQ: CNET). Now we have confirmed through sources that the firm was Quadrangle Group, the media and communications focused PE firm founded by Steve Rattner. The talks on Quadrangle’s side…
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Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, CBS, CNET, dan rosensweig, quadrangle
Joseph Weisenthal
Nov 8, 2007 12:05 PM
Comparing the recent era of cheap credit to the Dutch tulip bubble, Steve Rattner, principal at the PE firm Quadrangle Group, offered his outlook on a range of media issues. As noted in his keynote interview, at the Media and Money Conference, Rattner’s perspective is a function of his firm’s…
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