User:Urbanrenewal

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Welcome to my user page on Wikipedia. I have shared some information about myself and my interests on Wikipedia.

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 * Location: Boston, MA


 * Occupation: Finance


 * Baseball: Chicago White Sox


 * Football: Chicago Bears

My primary areas of focus on Wikipedia over the last few years have been private equity, finance and companies. These are not the most active areas of the project. I work in Finance which potentially explains the interest (although maybe not why I spend time on Wikipedia. I started the Private Equity Task Force to focus the efforts of interested Wikipedians on this area.  I have worked on creating new content around private equity investors and private equity firms   More recently, I have been working on defunct but historically notable financial institutions.  I have been trying to populate the list of former investment banks.

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The following are articles I have created, saved through significant editing, converted from stubs into articles or otherwise significantly revised:

Private equity concepts and history (27)
Business Development Company • Carried interest • Club deal • Collateralized Fund Obligation • Corporate raid • Corporate synergy • Dividend recapitalization • Equity co-investment • Financial sponsor • Early history of private equity • First Chicago Method • Growth capital • History of private equity and venture capital • Mezzanine capital • Pledge fund • Private equity • Private equity firm • Private equity fund • Private equity in the 21st century • Private equity in the 1990s • Private equity in the 1980s • Private equity secondary market • Private investment in public equity • Publicly traded private equity • Second lien loan • Special purpose acquisition company • Venture capital

Finance biographies (42)
Charles D. Barney • Leon Black • Gary P. Brinson • Craig Burr • John Canning, Jr. • Dayton Carr • Marshall Cogan • Peter A. Cohen • William E. Conway, Jr. • John P. Costas • James Coulter • Jean Deleage • Georges Doriot • Blair Effron • Michael R. Eisenson • J. Christopher Flowers • Eric Gleacher • H. Irving Grousbeck • Norman Wait Harris • Warren Hellman • Frederick Iseman • Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. • Henry Kravis • Marc Lasry • James B. Lee, Jr. • Thomas H. Lee (businessman) • Gerald M. Loeb • Donald Marron • John Mason • Balthazar P. Melick • Ken Moelis • Stephen Pagliuca • Edward A. Pierce • William S. Price III • Alan Patricof • Joseph Sampson • Edward Shearson • Walter V. Shipley • Henry Silverman • Winthrop H. Smith • Thom Weisel • Dean G. Witter

Private equity firms (146)
ABS Capital • Accel-KKR • Accel Partners • Actis Capital • Advent International • AEA Investors • Affinity Equity Partners • Allied Capital • AlpInvest Partners • Alta Communications • Alta Partners • Altor Equity Partners • American Research and Development Corporation • American Securities Capital Partners • Angelo Gordon & Company • Apax Partners • Ares Management • Atlas Venture • Austin Ventures • Avista Capital Partners • Bain Capital • Baring Vostok Capital Partners • Battery Ventures • Berkshire Partners • Blum Capital • Brentwood Associates • Brockway Moran & Partners • Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. • Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. • Castle Harlan • Catterton Partners • Caxton-Iseman Capital • CCMP Capital • Centerbridge Partners • Centerview Partners • Charles River Ventures • Charlesbank Capital Partners • Charterhouse Capital Partners • Charterhouse Group • Chicago Growth Partners (William Blair Capital Partners) • Code Hennessy & Simmons • Coller Capital • Cognetas • Cortec Group • Court Square Capital Partners • Crossroads Group • CVC Capital Partners • Cypress Group • Diamond Castle Holdings • DLJ Merchant Banking Partners • Doughty Hanson & Co. • Draper Fisher Jurvetson • Draper, Gaither & Anderson • Draper Richards • Duke Street Capital • Elevation Partners • Fenway Partners • FirstMark Capital • First Reserve Corporation • Fox Paine & Company • Freeman Spogli & Co. • Friedman Fleischer & Lowe • Frontenac Company • General Atlantic Partners • General Catalyst Partners • Genstar Capital • Goldman Sachs Capital Partners • GP Investments • Graphite Capital • Greycroft Partners • GTCR • H.I.G. Capital • Haas Wheat & Partners • HarbourVest Partners • Harvest Partners • Heartland Industrial Partners • Hellman & Friedman • HM Capital • InterMedia Partners • Irving Place Capital (Bear Stearns Merchant Banking) • J.H. Whitney & Company • J.W. Childs Associates • KPS Capital Partners • KRG Capital • JLL Partners • The Jordan Company • Kelso & Company • Lake Capital • Landmark Partners • Lee Equity Partners • Leeds Equity Partners • Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking • Leonard Green & Partners • Lexington Partners • Lightyear Capital • Lincolnshire Management • Lindsay Goldberg • Littlejohn & Co. • LRG Capital Funds • M/C Venture Partners • Madison Dearborn • MatlinPatterson Global Advisors • Matrix Partners • Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity • Metalmark Capital • MidOcean Partners • Morgenthaler Partners • Morgenthaler Ventures • MPM Capital • New Enterprise Associates • New Mountain Capital • Nordic Capital • Norwest Venture Partners • One Equity Partners • Pacific Equity Partners • PAI Partners • Paine & Partners • Pantheon Ventures • Partners Group • Pequot Capital Management • Polaris Venture Partners • Quadrangle Group • Redpoint Ventures • Riordan, Lewis & Haden • Riverstone Holdings • Roark Capital Group • Sofinnova (Sofinnova Ventures and Sofinnova Partners) • Summit Partners • TCW/Crescent Mezzanine • TSG Consumer Partners • Terra Firma Capital Partners • Thoma Cressey Bravo • Thomas H. Lee Partners • Trivest • U.S. Venture Partners • Vantage Point Venture Partners • Vector Capital • Vestar Capital Partners • Vitruvian Partners • Wachovia Capital Partners • Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe • Wellspring Capital Management • Wesray Capital Corporation • Weston Presidio • William Blair Capital Partners • Willis Stein & Partners • Wind Point Partners

Other companies, organizations and structures (89)
A. G. Becker & Co. • Alliance Laundry Systems AltAssets • Archipelago Learning • Bank in Winterthur • Bank One Corporation • Bergdorf Goodman • Blyth, Eastman Dillon & Co. • Bowles Hollowell Connor & Co. • Bonwit Teller • Brinson Partners • Cassatt & Company • Chemical Bank • Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt • Cogent Partners • Commodities Corporation • The Deal (Magazine) • Dain Rauscher Wessels • Dean Witter Reynolds • DPL Inc. • Dean Witter Reynolds • Duff & Phelps • E.A. Pierce & Co. • Education Management Corporation • Evenflo Company • Fenner & Beane • First Chicago Bank • First Union Corporation • Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller • Friedrich Air Conditioning • G. H. Walker & Co. • Girard Bank • Goodman Global • Good Sam Enterprises • Gruntal & Co. • Hambrecht & Quist • Harris, Forbes & Co. • Harris, Hall & Co. • Harris Williams & Co. • Hayden, Stone & Co. • Highland Capital Management • Hornblower & Weeks • InsideTrack • Institutional Limited Partners Association • Interhandel J. & W. Seligman & Co. • J.S. Morgan & Co. • JPMorgan Chase (History) • Keefe, Bruyette & Woods • Kips Bay Towers • Leslie's Poolmart • L.F. Rothschild • Lincoln International • Miller Buckfire & Co. • Mitchell Hutchins Moelis & Company • Morgan, Grenfell & Co. • Morgan, Harjes & Co. • Needham & Company • O'Connor & Associates • Panmure Gordon & Co. • Phillips & Drew • The Phoenix Companies • Probitas Partners • Private Equity Council • Reynolds Securities • Robertson Stephens • Roosevelt & Son • Ryan Beck & Co. • Sagent Advisors • Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst & Co. • SEED Foundation • Serena Software • Shearson, Hammill & Co. • Shearson Lehman Hutton • Standard Parking • Swiss Bank Corporation • Toggenburger Bank • TCW Group • Union Bank of Switzerland • Union Securities • United States v. Morgan • The Vitamin Shoppe • Tucker Anthony • VirtuFinancial • William Blair & Company • Wilshire Associates • Winstar Communications • 299 Park Avenue

Miscellaneous contributions (10)
Private Equity Task Force • Private equity and venture capital • Private equity firms • Private equity investors • History of private equity and venture capital • Corporate finance and investment banking • Private-equity-stub • Private-equity-bio-stub • Private-equity-company-stub • Hedge funds •

My signature over time
When I made my first edits on Wikipedia, I picked a name based on a book I was reading at the time. I didn't have any idea that I would still be using this name years later. But I like it and I am going to stick with it...

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