Thomas H Lee Partners has been investing in private equity from its single office in Boston since 1974. Since founder Tom Lee left in 2005 the firm has evolved and learned some difficult lessons – particularly during the last investment cycle – but Lee’s ‘culture of collegiality’ remains in place, co-president Scott Sperling tells Graham Winfrey
10 min read · 15 January 2013
Ian Brown, former head of European origination at Lloyds Bank, has been promoted to head of the UK bank’s corporate markets acquisition finance division.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
Italian media giant Mediaset has joined Clessidra to bid for TV producer Endemol. Mediaset is owned by Fininvest, a Berlusconi vehicle whose former head left in 2003 to form Clessidra.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The independent firm, renamed Fulcrum Capital Partners, will manage over C$700m (€508m; $678m) split between a private equity fund and separate mezzanine pool.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Weijian Shan, one of TPG's top dealmakers in China for more than a decade before leaving to chair PAG Group, talks with Private Equity International about the Chinese market.
9 min read · 15 January 2013
One of the highest profile figures in European private equity real estate is leaving German insurance company Gothaer for Austria’s largest real estate firm chaired by the country’s former prime minister.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The private equity model ‘follows an anticyclical trend to that of stock markets’, according to research from Golding Capital Partners.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Tom Attwood, the former chief executive of mezzanine provider ICG, will retire from the firm in March next year.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The majority of legacy “OpCo-PropCo” real estate structures are unlikely to secure refinancing in their current format from either banks or capital markets, according to a report published today by Bishopsfield Capital Partners.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
However, the lenders are reportedly expected to reject extension on the A$2.6bn senior debt package.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
