The company was acquired in February 2006 by Apollo Global Management, a private equity limited partnership, for $1.3 billion.

The new $1.4 billion goes into Forstmann Little's subordinated debt and equity partnership, which already had about $700 million.

Combined with an existing equity partnership that has about $700 million, that gives the company $2.8 billion.

Some benefits offered to restaurant management look a lot like those at large corporations or law firms: stock options and equity partnerships.

The strongest, and apparently prevailing, arguments against foreign equity partnerships is the relative lack of risk in so-called risk contracts.

In 2007, the firm went through a restructuring of its business, which involved slimming down the size of its equity partnership.

The network, in an equity partnership with John Cushman, will develop the project, which includes a plaza of more than two acres.

This is the first time a major investment banking firm has taken an equity partnership in a hostile takeover attempt.

Crossroads was also an early investor in secondary interests in existing private equity partnerships.

The 125 active equity partnerships in which the university has holdings include some from major Silicon Valley venture capitalists.