The firm has hired two new managing directors to lead its investor relations activities for its private equity fund of funds and hedge fund businesses in New York and Toronto.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The private equity firm has agreed to buy $500 million in common shares of MBIA Insurance, and has backstopped an additional $500 million for a shareholder rights offering to be held in the first quarter of 2008.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Conduit Capital Partners has sold three hydroelectric power plants in Mexico, the firm’s second successful exit this year from its 1999 vintage fund.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Trade buyer H Bauer scooped the consumer magazine and radio business divisions of Emap at an 11.2 times profit multiple for £1.14 billion, leaving buyout firms empty-handed.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
This week the billionaire investor helped clear the backlog of LBO-related debt. Amanda Janis examines the actions by the ‘Oracle of Omaha’.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
CVC Capital Partners, the global buyout firm, is consulting investors for its latest fundraising effort while its chairman Michael Smith has reportedly said limited partners as long-term investors are not driven by short-term problems.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Mounir Guen, chief executive of MVision, a global placement agent, joins PEO on day three of its Countdown to 2008.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
ACON Investments, Guggenheim Investment Management and West Coast Energy Partners have provided capital to enable Milagro Exploration to buy back Gulf Coast properties its founders once owned.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
In PEO's second installment in its Countdown to 2008, Mario Giannini, chief executive of global investment advisory firm Hamilton Lane, predicts a relatively benign year for the industry despite a "wall of worry".
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Differences remain between European and US investors, according to the latest research. The former also backed the re-emergence of European venture as opposed to their circumspect peers in the US.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
