The study observed "significantly greater job gains" in private equity transactions compared with the overall market.

Probably retail investing was down by some 35 percent in terms of equity transactions and trading.

Goldman established investment partnerships that allowed its clients to participate alongside the firm in private equity transactions.

In 2007 it was bought out in a private equity transaction.

A 5 billion euro price would make the deal the largest private equity transaction so far this year.

Here he worked in corporate finance, specializing in private equity transactions.

By some accounts, private equity transactions represent 15 to 20 percent of deal volume.

The firm also operates as a financial sponsor in certain private equity transactions.

In the mid-1990s he was head of global equity transactions for the firm.

It was also in this timeframe that the capital markets would start to open up again for private equity transactions.