Dawn Lim

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  • Marc Rowan, chief executive officer of Apollo GlobalFinance

    Apollo’s Rowan says trade war has made U.S. ‘merely exceptional’

    By Dawn Lim, Sonali Basak, and others
  • Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, departs following a tariff announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. US President Donald Trump is imposing tariffs on US trading partners worldwide, his biggest assault yet on a global economic system he has long bemoaned as unfair. Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Wall Street gets rude shock as Bessent plays second fiddle on tariffs

    By Saleha Mohsin, Dawn Lim, and others
  • Residential and office buildings are pictured at night in the Manhattan borough of New York on January 29, 2024.Finance

    Blackstone’s $17 billion property lending arm isn’t giving up on its office bets

    By Neil Callanan, Dawn Lim, and others
  • Steve SchwarzmanSuccess

    Blackstone CEO Schwarzman collected $896.7 million last year

    By Dawn Lim and Bloomberg
  • Harvey SchwartzFinance

    Private equity’s giant firms are showering their rainmakers with extra dough in big deal years—and dust during the drought

    By Dawn Lim and Bloomberg
  • Harvey Schwartz, chief executive officer of Caryle Group Inc., during a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. Carlyle Group is overhauling how it pays dealmakers to free up steadier cash flows for shareholders and authorized a plan to repurchase as much as $1.4 billion of stock. Photographer: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Private equity giant Carlyle bets on rainmakers cracking deal drought in new pay structure, w buy back up to $1.4 billion in stock

    By Dawn Lim and The Associated Press
  • Byron Wien, vice chairman of the advisory services unit at Blackstone Group LP, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. Wien said he prefers to invest in recently-formed Chinese companies in growth areas such as technology. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Byron Wien, the ‘nerdy middle-class Jewish kid’ who became a Blackstone and Morgan Stanley legend for his ’10 Surprises’ column, dies at 90

    By Patrick Oster, Dawn Lim, and others
  • Pete ClareFinance

    After Carlyle hires an outsider as its next CEO, a 3-decade veteran of the private equity giant is leaving

    By Dawn Lim and Bloomberg
  • Thomas H Lee, chairman and chief executive officer of Lee Equity Partners LLC, attends the Lincoln Center Fall Gala at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. The event raised $3.2 million. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Thomas H. Lee’s sudden death shocks partners at his $3 billion private investment firm—with a $1 billion fundraise in the balance

    By Dawn Lim, Amanda Gordon, and others
  • Blackstone Group CEO and co-founder Steve Schwarzman speaks during an interactive session with students at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) on March 04, 2020 in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Himanshu Bhatt/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Finance

    Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman earned an astonishing $1.3 billion last year and lifted his net worth to over $30 billion

    By Dawn Lim and Bloomberg
  • UNITED STATES – APRIL 29: Thomas Lee, president and chief executive officer of Thomas H. Lee Capital LLC, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference 2008 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The annual conference brings together scientists, business executives, philanthropists, journalists, academics and Nobel laureates to discuss today’s most pressing social, political and economic challenges, according to the Institute’s Web site. (Photo by Jamie Rector/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Finance

    Billionaire Thomas H. Lee, a leveraged buyout legend, dead of apparent suicide at 78

    By Patricia Hurtado, Dawn Lim, and others
  • Kewsong Lee, CEO, Carlyle, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on May 2, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    ‘The empire striking back’. How the Carlyle Group’s co-founders fell out with their hand-picked successor

    By Heather Perlberg, Dawn Lim, and others