In December 2012, the Workshop published the story of Momentive, a chemical company in upstate New York that was bought out by a private-equity firm.

Some big public companies, fed up with scrutiny from investors and regulators, are now selling themselves to private-equity firms.

After all, private-equity firms own assets for only a few years before they sell them and move on.

After leaving Sun in 2002, he became managing director at Silver Lake Partners, a private-equity firm.

The two men drew up a plan to market his skills to a private-equity firm that could eventually put him in charge of an acquisition.

On December 6, 2007, the company announced it purchased boating and watersports catalog company Overton's for $70 million from a private-equity firm.

Leonard Green & Partners, a private-equity firm, bought seventeen per cent of the business, and got two seats on the board.

On May 18, 2012, the Princeton Review brand name and operations were bought for $33 million by Charlesbank Capital Partners, a private-equity firm.

In 1984, he founded Bain Capital, a private-equity firm.

Q. Are you saying a private-equity firm can do a better job cleaning up an underperforming asset than a public company can?