But it is still hard to view these new listings as evidence of a rousing comeback for private equity.
While deal-making is nowhere near the heady levels of 2006 and 2007, just before the financial crisis struck, private equity made somewhat of a comeback in 2010.
Realogy's Hollywood-like comeback shows how private equity firms can succeed even when they make the wrong call.
U.S. stocks traded lower again Friday after another 20,000 jobs were lost in January and oil dropped more than $3 a barrel, but an afternoon comeback had the major equity indexes fighting for gains heading for the close.
Goldman Sachs on Tuesday said it had a strong comeback for the third quarter of 2012, buoyed by private equity holdings that had weighed down its earnings a year ago.
Ben Sherman, the struggling British clothing brand sported by successive generations of rock stars from the Who and the Jam to Oasis, is hoping to make a comeback after being snapped up by a private equity-backed firm.
And so, in being named chief executive Monday at Chrysler by its new owners — the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management — Mr. Nardelli, 59, is being given the chance to try to bring off two comebacks: Chrysler's, and his own.
Private Equity DEAL PROFESSOR Collateralized loan obligations, an important source of capital for many businesses, have made a modest comeback since the financial crisis.
This picture is, of course, just the reverse of the buyout deals' strong comeback after 2009, but it strongly suggests that the financial crisis might have affected the private equity market's subsectors quite differently.
Absent those offerings, the likelihood of a major rebound in equity markets compensating for a substantial fixed-income pullback is far from certain, even given the beginnings of a comeback in the IPO and M&A markets.
