The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, chiefly aimed at resurrecting investors' trust in the public markets, has prompted a fierce debate about its many unintended side effects and their impact on the private equity industry. To find out what exactly the issues are, Private Equity International consulted two legal practitioners. In these pages, Franci J. Blassberg of Debevoise & Plimpton and Prakash Metha of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld get to grips with the new rules and the ways in which they are going to affect the private equity business.
6 min read · 11 January 2013
This summer a seemingly never-ending wave of default news swept through the capital markets. Private equity backed transactions and their sponsors didn't escape unscathed, but are the prospects for what's ahead really that dim?
3 min read · 11 January 2013
One man's loss is another's opportunity: with a myriad of corporate entities struggling to survive the downturn, restructuring and turnaround opportunities abound for private equity firms who've got the appetite. But there aren't many of those around finds Robin Burnett.
10 min read · 11 January 2013
The UK private equity firm is set to make its latest Iberian acquisition with a bid for struggling Spanish supermarket chain El Árbol.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The two US buyout houses have joined forces for the $7bn acquisition of Qwest Communications' telephone directories business.
1 min read · 11 January 2013
Mark Director of Kirkland Ellis discusses the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley for the private equity industry.
7 min read · 11 January 2013
The private equity arm of Lehman Brothers is sounding out a number of media groups over a joint bid for Kirch Gruppe’s broadcasting unit.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The embattled Belgian VC firm has closed its US operation as the firm struggles to salvage some value from its ailing fund.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Keith Breslauer is building a business that is half real estate investor, half private equity house. Deepening Patron Capital's links with the European private equity industry is at the top of his agenda. Here's why.
9 min read · 11 January 2013
America 2002-10-01 Staff Writer <strong>America<br> Monito</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>General solicitation and the F word</strong><br> <quotation><bold>When private equity firms are fund-raising in the US, what can and can't they say to
10 min read · 11 January 2013
