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When Continental Airlines, one of the most maligned passenger carriers in history, was headed into bankruptcy in 1993, moneyman David Bonderman rushed in with Texas Pacific Group, like a team of trauma surgeons, to give it a $66 million transfusion. A year later, the group pumped in $40 million to...
Find the sickest company you can, and the odds are good that Texas Pacific wants a hand in healing it--in return for a big ownership stake. After 9/11, few other investors would touch the airlines, which have lost two-thirds of their value in the past year. But ever...
If US Airways manages to reorganize under bankruptcy protection, Texas Pacific, based in Fort Worth, stands to own 38% of an airline once valued at $7 billion--all for an investment of $200 million. And that's not its only deal in the works. While public attention naturally attached to...
So who are these guys? Outside the world of leveraged-buyout firms, few know the partners of Texas Pacific--and they like it that way. Even their website is blank. Yet their $10 billion portfolio has included such names as Bally shoes, Beringer wines, Del Monte foods, Ducati motorcycles, J...
TPG's greatest strengths, say investment insiders, are patience and timing. Texas Pacific sat out the hottest stock market in history. From May 2000 to September 2001, it did not make one purchase, while unloading more than $2 billion in holdings for its institutional investors. Says Coulter: "Since Sept. 11...