Private equity-backed M&A has steeply declined both in terms of total volume and as a percentage of M&A worldwide.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The mid-market buyout firm has agreed to a refinancing package – increasingly rare given credit dislocation – for sportswear brand Odlo on terms ‘very similar’ to the senior debt agreement put in place at the time of its original acquisition in 2006.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The biggest bank failure in US history is also one of the biggest publicly disclosed private equity losses in history. TPG has stressed that the investment represented only a small portion of its diversified assets.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
The emerging markets specialist has invested $10m from its Central Asia fund in equipment leasing finance company Leasing Group. Launched last year, the fund has raised $60m of its $100m target.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
History should judge TPG’s $1.3bn WaMu loss not for its size but for its miscalculation of risk, writes Cezary Podkul.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The emerging markets specialist has invested $10m from its Central Asia fund in equipment leasing finance company Leasing Group. Launched last year, the fund has raised $60m of its $100m target.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The biggest bank failure in US history is also one of the biggest publicly disclosed private equity losses in history. TPG has stressed that the investment represented only a small portion of its diversified assets.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
The US conglomerate said it was looking to cut its commercial real estate assets to $80bn from $90bn over the next year as part of the firm’s plans to scale back on its financial arm, GE Capital.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The US conglomerate said it was looking to cut its commercial real estate assets to $80bn from $90bn over the next year as part of the firm’s plans to scale back on its financial arm, GE Capital.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Private equity investments in New Zealand fell by more than 90 percent in the first half of 2008, compared to the same period last year.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
