Thames Water is owned by Kemble Water Holdings, whose investors include Australian investment firm Macquarie Group.
But in some cases, the appointees appear to have pushed for firms whose investors, officers, or partners were Perry donors.
Iridium North America, whose investors besides Motorola included Sprint and BCE of Canada, had 30,000 subscribers at its peak.
Far livelier is Ago, an Italian restaurant in West Hollywood whose investors include Robert DeNiro and Bob and Harvey Weinstein.
Also worth a click is golf.com, operated by GolfServ.com, one of whose investors is The New York Times Company.
The fund, whose investors included Tufts University and Yeshiva University, had $1.7 billion invested with Mr. Madoff.
The deal for Edwards, whose investors include the private equity firms Unitas Capital and CCMP Capital Advisors, is a bright spot in Europe's sluggish mergers and acquisitions market.
Disclosure: I helped found The Atavist, a technology startup whose investors include people connected to Google, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, and other technology companies.
The buyers are typically hedge funds, whose investors are often pensions that manage the life savings of schoolteachers and city workers.
Yoshiaki Murakami, a former civil servant, manages roughly ¥400 billion ($3.6 billion) in assets, through the Murakami fund, more than half of whose investors are foreign.
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