David Goret becomes senior managing director at the New Jersey-based alternative asset manager.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
In the week it emerged that UK retailer Sainsbury’s is the latest high-profile public company being targeted by private equity, new research shows that a record number of take-private deals were the biggest single source of the industry’s growth in the last 12 months.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
As lenders continued to supply debt to the industry at increasingly favourable terms, private equity firms were able to cash in last year by taking big cash dividends from refinancing, writes James Taylor.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Tim Callahan, the former CEO of both Equity Office and Trizec, has formed a private real estate firm focused on the US office market.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Carlyle invests in Indian outsourcing company * SIDBI, Clearstone finance Indian start-up * Merrill Lynch, PEP approach Australian credit company * Catalyst buys stake in catalogue firm * Bain Capital enters China real estate * Orchid Asia lists portfolio company * Private equity circles JVC * Vogo advances toward third deal * PMP ends talks with private equity * PEP's $1.3bn take-private grounded * Coles up for grabs
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Carlyle hires for MENA push * Merrill Lynch to expand Asia financial sponsor coverage * Former ANZ Capital director sets up own firm * SAC hires private equity team * Gulf Finance House reorganises private equity * Oaktree Capital installs Asia chairman * Blackstone opens in Hong Kong
4 min read · 12 January 2013
PEI Asia takes a look at some of the key movers and shakers in South Korean private equity.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus was found guilty of the insider trading of LG Card shares.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
2006 was an exceptional year for EQT, the Northern European LBO investor based in Stockholm. Here Conni Jonsson, the firm's CEO, reflects on the successes of the recent past and the challenges facing private equity in the near future.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Pacific Equity Partners in Sydney is preparing to organise a A$4 billion Australasian buyout fund – by far the largest such entity ever raised. Philip Borel reports.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
