Leon Black news from FierceFinance

Leon Black, the one-time head of mergers at Drexel, Burnham, Lambert, is one of many private equity players that has morphed into something of a distressed securities player--a predictable move given... Read more...

The private equity industry has been taking some hits for a year now, and none more so than Leon Black, the head of Apollo Group, which has seen deal after deal start to unravel. We've noted the... Read more...

Seems like there's a story to every deal that has gone bad in this credit crunch, with most ending in anger and a flurry of suits. About a year ago, Hexion, a company controlled by private equity... Read more...

Jon Huntsman, founder of chemical company Huntsman, is vowing to make Leon Black, of private equity firm Apollo, pay for backing out of a deal to buy Huntsman for $6.5 billion. Some thought the... Read more...

You would have thought, in part because of the performance of the Blackstone Group in the aftermarket, that private equity firms that wanted to go public had given up on the idea. But the Apollo... Read more...

There has been a lot of speculation about the next alternative investment player to follow the... Read more...