Quadrangle Group
Summary
Quadrangle Group is a private investment firm focused on private equity. The firm invests in middle-market companies within the media, communications and information-based sectors.The firm, which is based in New York City, was founded in 2000, has raised approximately $3 billion of private equity capital since inception and employs approximately 40 investment professionals in offices in New York and Hong Kong.Quadrangle's private equity business, Quadrangle Capital Partners, raised a $1.1 billion fund in 2000, followed by a $2.0 billion fund in 2005. Citing a not-further-identified "investor letter", a Feb. 2010 news report said the first fund had already returned the full amount to its investors and retained stakes in several companies, while the second fund had about $500 million left to invest and was up 19 percent in 2009.
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Get your manly mag here! Maxim up for sale
A sale effort had been in the cards since lenders including Cerberus Capital Partners took over the company in 2009. "It's never been a matter of 'if,'" Maxim President Ben Madden said in an interview. "It's a matter of when. ".
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Maxim Magazine’s Owners Exploring A Sale
Maxim, the loutish lifestyle magazine whose 1998 launch completely reshaped the men’s publishing field, is once again in play.
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Maxim cuts circulation by 20%
Maxim magazine is cutting the paid circulation it guarantees advertisers from 2. 5 million to 2 million next year, a 20% drop, and reducing its publishing frequency to 10 issues next year from 11 this year. Last year Maxim published 12 issues.
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Maxim Cuts Circulation 20%
Maxim magazine is cutting the paid circulation it guarantees advertisers from 2. 5 million to 2 million next year, a 20% drop, and reducing its publishing frequency to 10 issues next year from 11 this year. Last year Maxim published 12 issues.
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Maxim-um shake-up: Kliger takes the helm in wake of Mangione exit
In a big shake-up at Maxim publisher Alpha Media, industry veteran Jack Kliger is coming on board as “executive chairman” and taking over from just-ousted CEO Joseph Mangione. As the de facto chief executive, Kliger becomes the fifth. . .
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Why I Quit My High-Paying Finance Job To Start A Tech Company
Back in November of 2006, before NY Mag and TimeOut put startups on the cover, before the “tech bubble,” before Twitter and Foursquare were popular, before working at a startup in NY was considered a reasonable thing to do, I was a private equity investor for a $1. 6 billion fund called Quadrangle Group.
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NYT: Quadrangle Cofounder Steve Rattner Agrees To SEC Plea In Kickback Case
Steven Rattner may be the former car czar to most people but he played a role in the media investment world long before his brief stint with the Obama administration and the swirl of reports about his possible involvement in a New York kickback case. The New York Times is reporting, based an unidentified source, that Rattner has agreed to a plea in the case that includes a multi-year ban from the securities industry and a $5 million-plus fine.
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Report: Quadrangle Looks To sell Hargray Communications
The Quadrangle Group is putting rural cable and broadband provider Hargray Communications Group Inc. up for auction, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal could generate upwards of $400 million. Read more….
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MGM breaks new ground in the UK with BSkyB
Companies partner to launch new high definition channel - MGM HD.
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Cuomo Argues Back Against Hank Morris Defense
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo accused an indicted top aide to former state comptroller Alan Hevesi of running a $35 million fraud over the placement of billions of dollars of investments by the state’s biggest pension fund.
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