Buyouts North 2008

David Toll, Editor, Buyouts Magazine

David Toll is the Editor of Buyouts Magazine, a bi-weekly published since 1988 by Thomson Financial. From 1997 to 2005 he reported and wrote on the private equity markets for a Dow Jones’s The Private Equity Analyst; for much of the past year he was a special writer at Dow Jones, where he wrote a bi-weekly column on the bankruptcy and restructuring markets for Daily Bankruptcy Review. While an editor at The Private Equity Analyst, David helped launch a number of guides, reports and directories, including The Private Equity Analyst-Holt Compensation Study, Private Equity Partnership Terms and Conditions, the Directory of Private Equity Service Providers, and the Guide To Private Equity Attorneys, and the Guide to The Secondary Market. In the mid-1990s, David covered the paging and two-way radio markets for a Phillips Business Information (now called Access Intelligence) newsletter called Land Mobile Radio News. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.