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They eventually rose to Mr. Romney's defense, after Mr. Perry started referring to private-equity investors as "vultures" and a group of Gingrich supporters posted video calling the firm Mr. Romney founded "more ruthless than Wall Street."

Santorum, Paul Use Bain Fracas to Score Points 2012

Leading German politicians and local media began referring to private-equity investors like Fortress as "locusts", charging investors with swooping down on German companies, stripping them to reap huge profits and then moving on to their next victims.

Property Battle for Gagfah William Boston 2011

HONG KONG—A Chinese forestry company that won backing from big-name private-equity funds has become a new poster child for what can go wrong with an emerging-market investment.

China Forestry Troubles Mount Kate O'Keeffe 2011

Swissport International Ltd. is selling seven-year notes split between Swiss francs and dollars—350 million Swiss francs $385.2 million and $425 million—to finance its acquisition by PAI Partners, a private-equity firm.

Europe Bonds See Growth Michael Aneiro 2011

*** Metals and mining U.S. private-equity firm First Reserve bought an 80% stake in Belgium's Metallum Holdings for $960 million.

Business Watch 2011

Low Blow: Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext are eager to point out that Nasdaq CEO Robert Greifeld recently lost his chief financial officer to a private-equity firm and his top markets executive to a trading firm.

Scoring the Battle for the Big Board Aaron Lucchetti 2011

Nasdaq was open to added private-equity backing, while ICE was reluctant.

Building a Takeover Bid Over Takeout Gina Chon 2011

Blackstone got the buildings as part of the private-equity firm's 2007 leveraged buyout of Equity Office Properties Trust, the office-building firm of property tycoon Sam Zell .

Goldman's Seattle Squeeze Anton Troianovski 2011

While Goldman invested in Ping An on behalf of clients through its private-equity arm, this time it is using its own money to buy into Taikang, the person familiar with the matter said.

Goldman Bets on Chinese Insurance Prudence Ho 2011

In the final round of bidding that ended March 31, U.S. private-equity fund TPG Capital, Cerberus Capital Management LP and Japanese consumer lender J-Trust Co. also submitted bids.

Korea's A&P Has Inside Track on Takefuji Takeover Atsuko Fukase 2011