Deals
Wealthy Families Have $4 Trillion Up for Grabs
- Acquiring companies from car dealerships to renewable energy
- Blackstone, Carlyle step up effort to keep slice of the action
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In December, a half-dozen of some of the richest families in the U.S., from agriculture to beverages, gathered in a conference room on the 10th floor of an office building in Miami.
This was not some cabal to rule the world. Instead, for an hour over coffee and bagels they listened to a dealmaker for billionaire brothers J.B. and Tony Pritzker talk about how to buy companies.