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The BVCA, EVCA and CBI are together lobbying Brussels as an EU committee mulls mandatory regulation of alternative investment funds as proposed by former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
The global buyout firm is expanding its footprint to mainland China as talks with sovereign wealth funds progress in the background, according to chief executive Martin Halusa.
THE 50 PEOPLE WHO WILL CHANGE PRIVATE EQUITY 2008-06-01 Staff Writer <strong> Thierry Baudon </strong>, Mid Europa Partners, <strong>p. 58</strong><br> <br> <strong> Antonio Bonchristiano </strong>, GP Investments, <strong>p. 58</strong><br&g
The $9bn distressed investment specialist will provide more than half a billion dollars to bail out Standard Pacific, buffeted by the sinking Southern California real estate market.
Electra Partners has raised £100m to deploy alongside the capital of its main client, Electra Private Equity plc, as the latter returns to fully-blown private equity investment.
The years leading up to 2007 generated rising returns for private equity firms, as investors made use of highly favourable conditions in the credit markets.
The alternative asset manager’s blank cheque vehicle, formed last June, has purchased power plant operator Complete Energy Holdings, a TCW portfolio company.
US investment bank Greenhill & Co. has hired Christopher Kirsten and six other Lehman agents to launch a fund placement division.
As a senior managing director of the global fund of funds group HarbourVest Partners, Kevin Delbridge frequently plays both GP and LP. And now that HarbourVest has a listed vehicle, its IR function has taken on yet another dimension. Rob Kotecki recently spoke with Kevin on the topic of investor relations given his experience on both sides of the aisle.
Today's mix: mostly equity, most of the time 2008-05-01 Staff Writer According to a recent survey from the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, <italic>Sponsor Backed Going Private Transactions</italic>, the debt to equity ratio of today's public to private deals reflect just how dry the financin
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