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    Antoine Gara

    US private & institutional capital correspondent

    Antoine Gara is the US private & institutional capital correspondent at the Financial Times. He covers buyout firms, their deals and the broader private capital industry in the US.

    Previously, he was a senior editor at Forbes Magazine where he was a features and investigations writer covering finance and investing. He won a 2020 SABEW Best in Business award for his writing on Robinhood and spent the first part of his career at Lehman Brothers and Barclays.

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    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      Due Diligence
      VCs swarm Finland: saunas and reindeer but few deals Premium content

      Plus, Peltz reignites proxy fight with Disney and Brookfield raises $30bn

      The Due Diligence logo
    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      Infrastructure investment
      Brookfield raises $28bn for largest-ever infrastructure fund

      Investors seeking shelter from inflation plough money into airports, toll roads and pipelines

      Brookfield Asset Management logo on a Smartphone
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Due Diligence
      Berkshire Hathaway after Charlie Munger Premium content

      Plus, Silver Lake and Michael Dell extract billions from a decade of deals and KKR reorganises its finances

      The Due Diligence logo
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      KKR & Co LP
      KKR takes full control of Global Atlantic as it rearranges its finances

      Private equity group says it wants shareholders to better understand its growth

      Scott Nuttall
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Private equity
      VMware’s $92bn sale showers cash on Michael Dell and Silver Lake

      Investors’ decade-old deal pays off in ‘one of the huge private equity successes’

      Montage of Michael Delll, a phone and Silver Lake logo
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Tiger Global Management LLC
      Scott Shleifer to step down from private equity role at Tiger Global

      Executive’s decision to step back ‘based largely on geography’ after move to Florida during pandemic

      A montage of Scott Shleifer and Chase Coleman and the Tiger Global logo
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Private equity
      Permira and Blackstone lead €14bn bid to buy eBay-backed Adevinta

      Plan to delist Norwegian online classifieds company would be second-biggest buyout this year

      Adevinta logo on a phone
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      McDonald's Corp
      Carlyle wins big on $1.8bn sale of stake in McDonald’s China business

      Citic Capital to remain majority shareholder in fast-food chain’s local operation

      A McDonald’s outlet in Hong Kong
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      News in-depthPrivate equity
      Private equity resorts to buying back companies after IPO flops

      EQT, Cinven and General Atlantic among those involved in take-private deals for businesses floated two years ago

      Ariel Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor
    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Jim Chanos
      Short seller Jim Chanos to close his main hedge funds

      Legendary bear says interest in fundamental stockpicking has waned

      Jim Chanos
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Bank bonuses
      Wall Street workers told to expect another year of smaller bonuses

      Payouts for some roles set to fall by 25% as higher interest rates damp dealmaking and IPOs

      People walk past the New York Stock Exchange
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Due Diligence
      The ‘blood oath’ that made Jamie Dimon a savvy shareholder Premium content

      Plus, the secretive Texas oil companies being chased down by dealmakers and Rob Copeland’s new book on Bridgewater

      The Due Diligence logo
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Due Diligence
      Carlyle finds a new cost-cutting target — itself Premium content

      Plus, European start-ups look to challenge OpenAI and Disney runs into trouble on the cricket pitch

      Due diligence logo
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Private equity
      Private equity fortunes diverge as KKR prospers while Carlyle cuts jobs

      Buyout firms’ contrasting outcomes linked to handling of risky succession from founding partners

      Harvey Schwartz
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Special ReportFTfm: Fixed Income
      Floating-rate exposure set to cause more balance-sheet pain

      Leveraged companies that did not hedge against rising rates may be forced to tap cash reserves to cover spending

    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      Private equity wrestles with higher interest rates

      Japan’s prime minister bets on stimulus to tackle the pain of inflation

    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Apollo Global Management LLC
      Apollo reworks pay for executives among ‘next generation’ of leaders

      Heads of private equity, credit and insurance will give up current packages for $550mn in stock grants

      Marc Rowan, Apollo chief executiv
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      FT SeriesHigher for longer
      Private equity: higher rates start to pummel dealmakers

      The firms that used the era of cheap money to become the new financial titans are wrestling with rising interest costs

      Montage image of a Wall Street sign and a bill with Benjamin Franklin’s face inside a cog
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Sculptor Capital Management
      Daniel Och ends feud over Sculptor hedge fund

      Founder backs Rithm Capital buyout plan valuing company at $720mn

      Daniel Och
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Endeavor
      Silver Lake moves to take entertainment group Endeavor private

      Value of Ari Emanuel’s group jumps to $14bn as it says it is exploring strategic alternatives

      Ari Emanuel
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      Blackstone Group LP
      Blackstone warns of looming hit to consumers from surge in bond yields

      ‘When 30-year mortgages and car loans cost you 8% it will impact consumer behaviour,’ says president

      Jonathan Gray
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Private equity
      EQT testing private stock sales as IPO markets ‘dysfunctional’

      Nordic group considering private auctions among its 1,100 LPs, CEO says

      Christian Sinding, chief executive officer of EQT
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      InterviewInsurance
      JC Flowers warns of systemic risk as insurers binge on private credit investments

      US investor raises alarm over flood of money into assets such as securitised products and private debts

      J Christopher Flowers
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Due Diligence
      ExxonMobil gets its ‘mother fracker’ Premium content

      Plus, Birkenstock steps into a rocky IPO market and Sequoia’s former China arm plots a new future

      The Due Diligence logo
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Private equity
      Private equity groups face investor scrutiny over tactics for returning capital

      LPs worry that use of NAV and margin loans relies on financial engineering rather underlying portfolio performance

      Monitors display Bumble signage during the company’s initial public offering
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