4. TPG
Fort Worth, United States
TPG stands for Texas Pacific group, a name chose because the founding partners were based in Fort Worth and San Francisco. The group came together over the acquisition of the Continental Airways, which was often praised as a model buyout, unlike the TWA fiasco. Since that initial success, TGA has been negotiating deals like AT&T Paradyne, J. Crew, Petco, Gemplus SA, Telenor, Burger King, Metro Goldwin Mayer, and SunGard. They were also involved in the TXU deal, which didn’t go quite as planned for all involved.
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