Here’s a tip for the GP who needs to close a deal in a timely manner – be pregnant. This pressure tactic worked brilliantly for Raquel Vargas Palmer, a principal at New York-based distressed investor KPS Special Situations Fund. Palmer, who led the firm in its turnaround and recent exit of paper products company Blue Heron, got down to brass tacks while six months pregnant (she is expecting her third child in January).
First Round – November 2006
FIRST ROUND 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Here's a tip for the GP who needs to close a deal in a timely manner – be pregnant. This pressure tactic worked brilliantly for Raquel Vargas Palmer, a principal at New York-based distressed investor KPS Special Situations Fund. Palmer, who led the firm in its turnaround a
