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The 30-year-old obsessive networker who is dominating a wildly profitable niche on Wall Street known as ‘directs’

Matt Swain has become a pioneer by pairing family offices looking to triple their money with under-the-radar businesses looking to exit.

Fortune

KKR's 'apprenticeship culture' is fueling ambitions to hit $1 trillion in assets

KKR is aiming to move toward a buy-and-hold model more akin to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

Fortune

Does UT Tyler Health Science Center’s deal with private equity shield doctors from malpractice suits?

A lawsuit claims UT Tyler Health Science Center is trying to pull the veil of governmental immunity over doctors who do all of their work for a for-profit, private equity-backed health care system.

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Few winners, many losers as office building debt and vacancy worsens

Only a handful of downtown buildings get most of the new leases as downsizing tenants give up space and commercial debt gets pressured.

Chicago Sun-Times

How a 28-year-old dealmaker jump-started an industry and became one of Wall Street's youngest CEOs

Speed lunches, savvy connections, and being 'really blunt' have made Matt Swain of Triago a top player in direct-transaction private investing.

Fortune

What happened to the 50 schools Rahm Emanuel closed, a family’s challenges after immigration and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sam Zell, Who Acquired Tribune in Controversial Deal, Has Died

Grabbed Tribune stations, newspapers, Chicago Cubs in 2007 for $8.2 billion

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Real Estate Pioneer Samuel Zell Has Died At 81

Zell left a legacy and an impact in the real estate industry as well as he took his company public in the New York Stock Exchange.

Zenger

Sam Zell dies at 81; Chicago real estate tycoon owned Tribune Co.

The billionaire, known as “the grave dancer” for picking up distressed assets, once owned the Tribune Co., which went into bankruptcy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sam Zell, billionaire real estate investor, dies

Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as “the grave dancer” for his ability to revive moribund properties has died due to complications from a recent illness

The Independent UK

‘It’s hell’: life under the American mobile home king who calls himself a ‘grave dancer’

Billionaire Sam Zell is the largest mobile home landlord in the US, but his tenants say they reckon with disrepair, neglect, flooding and rising rents. Some have had enough

The Guardian - US

Remote work is 'bull***t,' says real estate billionaire Sam Zell

“One of the biggest lies in the world is that people working from home are more productive than people working in the office,” he said.

Fortune

Paul Sullivan: The Chicago Cubs’ front-office intrigue is much more interesting than their offseason

I’m admittedly a sucker for any story that includes the words “internal tensions between the business and baseball sides,” no matter what organization is being discussed.

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