The law will also have an impact on private equity.

I think private equity is pretty much dead at the moment.

A year ago private equity had all the money in the world.

But the private equity business lost $130 million in the first half.

But that is the nature of the private equity business.

Certainly, a private equity firm would not want to take the risk.

There was never a single private equity model as such to break.

There will be a new age for private equity down the road.

We believe there was a private equity approach earlier on in the year.

In truth the deal does not say much more than that's private equity for you.

Having said that, I did turn down the opportunity to go into private equity a few years ago.

Size really does matter — but not how you think it might, according to one view of the private equity world.

Competition is coming on the private equity front as well.

Late last year, private equity started to show signs of life.

Private equity has a lot of cash to put to work.

And have you ever worked in the private equity fund business before?

One person with knowledge of the business said that there had been interest from private equity groups.

He was happy in his job at a private equity firm and had no plans to leave.

Which is the biggest private equity firm of them all?

In 1984, it made its first foreign private equity investment.

Private equity firms have also being getting into the action.

The private equity firms know they have a good thing going.

It would be the third largest private equity deal since 2008.

Private equity is a more broad based issue, but still small.

And we do not take meetings with private equity or whatever.