Urbanrenewal

ϋrbanяenewaℓ is taking a long wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia when I have a little more time to devote. I am hopeful more users will pick up on the topics I have been working on while I am gone. I am sure I will be back full force at some point and in the meantime I will be watching and reserve the right to stop by from time to time if necessary. Effective as of October 1, 2010

This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 8 months and 23 days.

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This user has created 300 articles on Wikipedia.

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Personal Information

Welcome to my user page on Wikipedia. I have shared some information about myself and my interests on Wikipedia.

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Location: Boston, MA

Occupation: Finance

Baseball: Chicago White Sox

Football: Chicago Bears

My primary areas of focus on Wikipedia over the last few years have been private equity, finance and companies. These are not the most active areas of the project. I work in Finance which potentially explains the interest (although maybe not why I spend time on Wikipedia. I started the Private Equity Task Force to focus the efforts of interested Wikipedians on this area. I have worked on creating new content around private equity investors and private equity firms More recently, I have been working on defunct but historically notable financial institutions. I have been trying to populate the list of former investment banks.

Barnstars

**Knight of Excellence in Finance and Private Equity Barnstar**
"For prodigious contributions of the first quality in the areas of finance, private equity...you are righteously awarded the *Knighthood Order of Excellence* barnstar." **OhioStandard** (talk) 02:20, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

**The Tireless Contributor Barnstar**
Presented to **Urbanrenewal** for his amazing efforts to develop wiki-coverage of private equity and venture capital topics. Lamro (talk) 09:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

**The Business and Economics Barnstar**
Congratulations on your excellent contributions to Wikipedia's private equity section *Relocator100 (talk) 17:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)*

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The following are articles I have created, saved through significant editing, converted from stubs into articles or otherwise significantly revised:

Private equity concepts and history (27)

Business Development Company • Carried interest • Club deal • Collateralized Fund Obligation • Corporate raid • Corporate synergy • Dividend recapitalization • Equity co-investment • Financial sponsor • Early history of private equity • First Chicago Method • Growth capital • History of private equity and venture capital • Mezzanine capital • Pledge fund • Private equity • Private equity firm • Private equity fund • Private equity in the 21st century • Private equity in the 1990s • Private equity in the 1980s • Private equity secondary market • Private investment in public equity • Publicly traded private equity • Second lien loan • Special purpose acquisition company • Venture capital

Finance biographies (42)

Charles D. Barney • Leon Black • Gary P. Brinson • Craig Burr • John Canning, Jr. • Dayton Carr • Marshall Cogan • Peter A. Cohen • William E. Conway, Jr. • John P. Costas • James Coulter • Jean Deleage • Georges Doriot • Blair Effron • Michael R. Eisenson • J. Christopher Flowers • Eric Gleacher • H. Irving Grousbeck • Norman Wait Harris • Warren Hellman • Frederick Iseman • Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. • Henry Kravis • Marc Lasry • James B. Lee, Jr. • Thomas H. Lee (businessman) • Gerald M. Loeb • Donald Marron • John Mason • Balthazar P. Melick • Ken Moelis • Stephen Pagliuca • Edward A. Pierce • William S. Price III • Alan Patricof • Joseph Sampson • Edward Shearson • Walter V. Shipley • Henry Silverman • Winthrop H. Smith • Thom Weisel • Dean G. Witter

Private equity firms (146)

Other companies, organizations and structures (89)

A. G. Becker & Co. • Alliance Laundry Systems AltAssets • Archipelago Learning • Bank in Winterthur • Bank One Corporation • Bergdorf Goodman • Blyth, Eastman Dillon & Co. • Bowles Hollowell Connor & Co. • Bonwit Teller • Brinson Partners • Cassatt & Company • Chemical Bank • Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt • Cogent Partners • Commodities Corporation • The Deal (Magazine) • Dain Rauscher Wessels • Dean Witter Reynolds • DPL Inc. • Dean Witter Reynolds • Duff & Phelps • E.A. Pierce & Co. • Education Management Corporation • Evenflo Company • Fenner & Beane • First Chicago Bank • First Union Corporation • Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller • Friedrich Air Conditioning • G. H. Walker & Co. • Girard Bank • Goodman Global • Good Sam Enterprises • Gruntal & Co. • Hambrecht & Quist • Harris, Forbes & Co. • Harris, Hall & Co. • Harris Williams & Co. • Hayden, Stone & Co. • Highland Capital Management • Hornblower & Weeks • InsideTrack • Institutional Limited Partners Association • Interhandel J. & W. Seligman & Co. • J.S. Morgan & Co. • JPMorgan Chase (History) • Keefe, Bruyette & Woods • Kips Bay Towers • Leslie's Poolmart • L.F. Rothschild • Lincoln International • Miller Buckfire & Co. • Mitchell Hutchins Moelis & Company • Morgan, Grenfell & Co. • Morgan, Harjes & Co. • Needham & Company • O'Connor & Associates • Panmure Gordon & Co. • Phillips & Drew • The Phoenix Companies • Probitas Partners • Private Equity Council • Reynolds Securities • Robertson Stephens • Roosevelt & Son • Ryan Beck & Co. • Sagent Advisors • Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst & Co. • SEED Foundation • Serena Software • Shearson, Hammill & Co. • Shearson Lehman Hutton • Standard Parking • Swiss Bank Corporation • Toggenburger Bank • TCW Group • Union Bank of Switzerland • Union Securities • United States v. Morgan • The Vitamin Shoppe • Tucker Anthony • VirtuFinancial • William Blair & Company • Wilshire Associates • Winstar Communications • 299 Park Avenue

Miscellaneous contributions (10)

Private Equity Task Force • {{Private equity and venture capital}} • {{Private equity firms}} • {{Private equity investors}} • {{History of private equity and venture capital}} • {{Corporate finance and investment banking}} • {{Private-equity-stub}} • {{Private-equity-bio-stub}} • {{Private-equity-company-stub}} • {{Hedge funds}} •

My signature over time

When I made my first edits on Wikipedia, I picked a name based on a book I was reading at the time. I didn't have any idea that I would still be using this name years later. But I like it and I am going to stick with it...

At first...

Urbanrenewal (talk)

Then...

|► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk)

Today...

|► ϋrbanяenewaℓ • TALK ◄|

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