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The result was no consensus. Academic Challenger (talk) 17:40, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
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No independent notability demonstrated beyond HIG Capital. Slashme (talk) 19:26, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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Background: this article has previously been redirected to HIG Capital but recreated. Source review: --Slashme (talk) 19:27, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
| Source | Independent | Reliable | Significant coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Sami Mnaymneh". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-05-23. | yes | yes | no (database entry) |
| Vardi, Nathan. "How Clever New Deals And An Unknown Tax Dodge Are Creating Buyout Billionaires By The Dozen". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-05-23. | yes | yes | no (brief mention) |
| "Columbia Daily Spectator 13 May 1981 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-23. He subsequently received a J.D. degree and an M.B.A. degree, with honors, from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, respectively. | Maybe (school paper) | Maybe (school paper) | no (brief mention) |
| "Columbia Business School Expands Social Enterprise Resources: MBA News". TopMBA.com. 2015-01-29. Retrieved 2020-05-23. | Maybe (blog) | No (blog) | no (brief mention) |
| "H.I.G. Capital". higcapital.com. Retrieved 2020-05-23. | No (company website) | Maybe (company website) | yes |
| DHR International"]. www.dhrinternational.com. Retrieved 2020-05-23.. Earlier in his career, he was a vice president in the Mergers and Acquisitions department at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he focused on leveraged buyouts and served as a senior advisor to a number of prominent private equity firms. | Kind of: WSJ article mirrored on this headhunter's site. | Probably | Borderline: a number of mentions, but doesn't demonstrate independent notability |
| Leleux, Benoît; Swaay, Hans van; Megally, Esmeralda (2015-01-15). Private Equity 4.0: Reinventing Value Creation. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-93983-3. | Yes | Yes | Borderline: a number of mentions, but doesn't demonstrate independent notability |
| "Atlanta's 20 Largest Private Equity Firms". Atlanta Business Chronicle. Mar 20, 2020. Retrieved May 23, 2020. | yes | yes | no |
| Lim, Dawn (2016-05-05). "H.I.G.'s Growth Tests Firm's Quest to Stay True to Its Roots". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-05-23. Based in Miami, and with offices across the United States, Europe, and South America, H.I.G. Capital specializes in providing both debt and equity capital to small and medium sized companies, utilizing a flexible and operationally focused, value-added approach. | yes | yes | no |
| "H.I.G. Capital". higcapital.com. Retrieved 2020-05-23.. | no | Maybe | no |
| "YoungArts Hosts Intimate Brunch and Performance in Aspen". Whitewall. 2019-08-07. Retrieved 2020-05-23. | yes | Maybe | no |
| "Psychology News" (PDF). University of Miami Department of Psychology. 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2020. | yes | Maybe | no |
| "Barry, Fergang Recognized for Service as Alumni Leaders". Columbia College Today. Summer 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2020. He supports several cultural and medical institutions, including the Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. | Maybe | Maybe | no |
| TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION"]. tateamericas.org. Retrieved 2020-05-23. | yes | maybe | no |
| "Whitney Acquires Norman Lewis Painting, and Trump's Wedding Cake Sells at Auction". Hyperallergic. 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2020-05-23. | Probably | probably | no |
| "Julie Mehretu, Exhibition, Mixed media, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United-States". Art Limited. Retrieved 2020-05-23. | Probably | probably | no |
| TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION"]. tateamericas.org. Retrieved 2020-05-23. | yes | probably | no |
| "Memorial Sloan Kettering Center 2018 Annual Report" (PDF). Memorial Sloan Kettering Center. Retrieved May 23, 2020. In 2009, he established the Sami Mnaymneh Chair at the Economics Department of Columbia University, a position currently held by Canadian-American economist W. Bentley MacLeod. | yes | probably | no |
| "W. Bentley MacLeod". Columbia University Department of Economics. Retrieved May 23, 2020. | yes | probably | no |
- Keep: "Private Equity 4.0: Reinventing Value Creation", printed by John Wiley & Sons, is a reliable (and scholarly) source that provides in-depth coverage on Sami Mnaymneh: "H.I.G. Capital was founded in 1993 by Tony Tamer, previously a partner at Bain & Company, and Sami Mnaymneh, who brought hands-on deal-making expertise, having been a managing director advising private equity clients at heavyweight Blackstone Group. Before his spell at Blackstone, Mnaymneh was a VP in the M&A department at investment bank Morgan Stanley & Co., where he devoted a significant amount of his time to leveraged buyouts and served as senior advisor to a number of prominent US private equity firms." It's evident from this paragraph that Mnaymneh's notability extends beyond HIG Capital. --1990'sguy (talk) 20:46, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
- I listed that source above, and I don't see that coverage as in-depth at all, and in fact, he's only mentioned in a section about HIG, so it definitely doesn't imply independent notability. --Slashme (talk) 12:57, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
- Keep Yes lots of coverage comes from to press releases but the source from Forbes is written by the staff member thus absolutely passes WP:RS. John Wiley & Sons cannot be ignored either, so WP:GNG is met. Other references include: [1][2] which are good for establishing that he is well known to independent reliable sources. Bvatsal61 (talk) 07:05, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
- Did you look at the Forbes source? It's a bare listing of facts. Neither the Bloomberg source nor the Telegraph source that you list goes into much detail about Mnaymeh himself: the one's an article about takeover talks between HIG and another company, and the other is about how HIG owns a bed company in Britain, again only going to show notability in the context of HIG, not independent notability. --Slashme (talk) 12:56, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
- Comment. It is a strange thing, that someone so rich can be so obscure in WP:RS, however, that seems to be the case. The Private Equity 4.0: Reinventing Value Creation ref is about his firm (which is notable), and not him. The Forbes article is not about him, but a type of deal that many private equity firms are using (him being one). Most of the other refs are really WP:MILL stuff about his firm's deals (again, his firm is notable), in which he gets a passing mention. I cannot find a single WP:SIGCOV piece from a good independent RS on him as the principal subject – a strange outcome, but hard to see how this does not end up as a being Redirect to his firm, HIG? Perhaps some good RS will do a piece on him in the future? Britishfinance (talk) 13:51, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
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