News: Funds 2002-08-01 Staff Writer <b>GSC closes Europe's largest mezzanine fund</b><br />GSC Partners, the independent private capital investor, has held a final closing for GSC European Mezzanine Fund LP. At €1.065bn, it is the largest dedicated mezzanine fund raised in Europe to date.&l
9 min read · 11 January 2013
In the current economic climate, one of the hottest subjects in private equity has to do with the way the private equity funds deal, if at all, with limited partners who refuse to honour their commitments and reject capital calls. Joe Bartlett drafts a solution.
9 min read · 11 January 2013
Who is shaping the industry? The question is important, because private equity, despite its becoming a more mainstream, institutionalised asset class, fundamentally remains a people's business. Private Equity International picks the people who make all the difference in European private equity.
10 min read · 11 January 2013
One of the hottest subjects in private equity has to do with the way private equity funds deal, if at all, with limited partners who refuse to honour their commitments and reject capital calls. Joe Bartlett drafts a solution.
8 min read · 11 January 2013
Following a SFR90m loss for the nine months ending December 31, the listed Swiss fund of funds says the decline of its share price is slowing down.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
Private equity is often described as a long-term game and many investors read this as code for the asset class' inherent illiquidity. But now securitisation has come to private equity with the potential of dramatically changing the landscape. Private Equity International looks at recent developments.
10 min read · 11 January 2013
News: Deals 2002-03-01 Staff Writer <b>Coller Capital makes first exit from Lucent portfolio</b><br />Pequot Capital Management and New Venture Partners, the New Jersey-based venture capital operation controlled by UK private equity secondaries specialist Coller Capital, have partially dive
10 min read · 11 January 2013
Rigorous insurance due diligence is key in the buyout process if nasty surprises are to be avoided. It can also boost a bidder's bargaining position, finds Philip Borel.
9 min read · 11 January 2013
The history of the US private equity market's love affair with Private Investments in Public Equities is as short as it is sordid. David Snow looks at what's gone wrong.
6 min read · 11 January 2013
News: Funds 2002-02-01 Staff Writer <b>€2bn Advent fund to focus On Europe</b><br />Advent International intends to invest 70 per cent of Global Private Equity IV, its new €2bn buyout fund, in Western Europe, with the balance going to North America and Asia.<br /><br />?Europe i
9 min read · 11 January 2013
