Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sami Mnaymneh


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The result was no consensus. Academic Challenger (talk) 17:40, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Sami Mnaymneh

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No independent notability demonstrated beyond HIG Capital. Slashme (talk) 19:26, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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Background: this article has previously been redirected to HIG Capital but recreated. Source review: --Slashme (talk) 19:27, 14 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep: "Private Equity 4.0: Reinventing Value Creation", printed by John Wiley & Sons, is a reliable (and scholarly) source that provides in-depth coverage on Sami Mnaymneh: "H.I.G. Capital was founded in 1993 by Tony Tamer, previously a partner at Bain & Company, and Sami Mnaymneh, who brought hands-on deal-making expertise, having been a managing director advising private equity clients at heavyweight Blackstone Group. Before his spell at Blackstone, Mnaymneh was a VP in the M&A department at investment bank Morgan Stanley & Co., where he devoted a significant amount of his time to leveraged buyouts and served as senior advisor to a number of prominent US private equity firms." It's evident from this paragraph that Mnaymneh's notability extends beyond HIG Capital. --1990&#39;sguy (talk) 20:46, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I listed that source above, and I don't see that coverage as in-depth at all, and in fact, he's only mentioned in a section about HIG, so it definitely doesn't imply independent notability. --Slashme (talk) 12:57, 16 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Yes lots of coverage comes from to press releases but the source from Forbes is written by the staff member thus absolutely passes WP:RS. John Wiley & Sons cannot be ignored either, so WP:GNG is met. Other references include: which are good for establishing that he is well known to independent reliable sources. Bvatsal61 (talk) 07:05, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Did you look at the Forbes source? It's a bare listing of facts. Neither the Bloomberg source nor the Telegraph source that you list goes into much detail about Mnaymeh himself: the one's an article about takeover talks between HIG and another company, and the other is about how HIG owns a bed company in Britain, again only going to show notability in the context of HIG, not independent notability. --Slashme (talk) 12:56, 16 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment. It is a strange thing, that someone so rich can be so obscure in WP:RS, however, that seems to be the case.  The Private Equity 4.0: Reinventing Value Creation ref is about his firm (which is notable), and not him.  The Forbes article is not about him, but a type of deal that many private equity firms are using (him being one).  Most of the other refs are really WP:MILL stuff about his firm's deals (again, his firm is notable), in which he gets a passing mention.  I cannot find a single WP:SIGCOV piece from a good independent RS on him as the principal subject – a strange outcome, but hard to see how this does not end up as a being Redirect to his firm, HIG?  Perhaps some good RS will do a piece on him in the future? Britishfinance (talk) 13:51, 21 June 2020 (UTC)


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