What lies in store for the 2009 fundraising market? PEI assesses the mood of limited partners around the world and finds out which LPs have risen to the top of the popularity stakes. By Matt Levin
10 min read · 08 February 2013
Listed French private equity firm Eurazeo is keeping a close eye on its portfolio companies while resisting the temptation to micro-manage. Andy Thomson met with executive board chairman Patrick Sayer, who is confident he can ride the economic storm – and maybe even give a boost to his firm's ailing share price
7 min read · 08 February 2013
In the absence of exit opportunities, venture firms are increasingly turning to the secondaries market to generate liquidity. Christopher Witkowsky reports
3 min read · 08 February 2013
A UK diagnostics firm is launching an aggressive growth strategy
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Christopher Flowers should be making hay. But at the outset of an historic buying opportunity, why are some of his firm's limited partners running for cover? Matt Levin and David Snow investigate
6 min read · 08 February 2013
Uncertainty over general partners' ability to draw down capital is yet another unforeseen problem the market crisis has created
3 min read · 08 February 2013
These days, it's hard to tell fact from fiction 2009-02-01 Staff Writer Sometimes the consumer press scoops us big time, such as the news that investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has acquired private equity powerhouse TPG. This from consumer-electric news site CNET, reporting last month on the exit from A
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Credit, or the lack of credit, is on everyone’s minds. For some real estate investors it is presenting an ideal opportunity to provide financing where financing is badly needed.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Proposals to create a ‘bad bank’ to soak up the toxic assets clogging the US financial markets have been welcomed by real estate professionals. However, veterans of the RTC warn against simply ‘moving pieces round the board’.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The Middle Eastern banks have suffered ratings cuts due to concerns over high leverage, a strain on liquidity and an expected fall in the value of the firms' private equity and real estate investments.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
