Bain and TH Lee have pushed back the closing deadline by six months for their $27.5 billion buyout of Clear Channel. Goldman Sachs recently did the same for its $1 billion buyout of Myers Industries.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The buyout group continues to enhance its debt market activities with closure of its first ever ‘credit liquidity’ fund.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Istithmar, a Dubai government-owned investment firm, reportedly plans to diversify into venture capital and debt investing as the unavailability of leverage makes larger deals more difficult.
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
Palamon Capital Partners has carried out its ninth investment for its latest fund as it looks to benefit from the growth of online clothes shopping.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Palamon Capital Partners has carried out its ninth investment for its latest fund as it looks to benefit from the growth of online clothes shopping.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Standard Life European Private Equity Trust has seen an increase in net asset value, though its chairman says problems in the global credit markets will mean a quieter period for draw-downs and distributions.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Increasing fund sizes and periods of heavy fundraising have historically correlated with decreasing returns, according to research presented by two prominent US scholars.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Aureos Capital has become the first recipient of capital from a $1.5 billion fund backed by the Kazakhstan government as it attempts to stimulate private equity activity in the region.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
