The mega-trend towards operational value-add is irreversible
1 min read · 15 January 2013
China-focused Spring Capital was launched just before the 2008 credit crisis hit. Founder and chief executive Vincent Chan tells PE Asia how the first-time fund coped with a difficult fundraising process and how it differentiates itself in China’s growing private equity market
6 min read · 15 January 2013
UK opposition leader Ed Miliband singled out private equity this week as an example of 'bad business'. The argument may have been weak, but the sentiment is significant.
4 min read · 15 January 2013
The Stockholm-based firm, which is approaching the end of fundraising for its sixth fund, has hired Christian Broberg from CD&R.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
Private equity real estate firms have taken to filling the large, deep void left by commercial banks and other traditional real estate lenders. PERE Magazine, October 2011 issue
10 min read · 15 January 2013
There is hidden distress in the German real estate market, and private equity real estate firms are gearing up in creative ways in their quest to uncover it. PERE magazine October 2011 issue.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
Julian Mash, founder and CEO of Vision Capital, buys private equity-backed companies en gros. It’s a complex technique – and according to Mash, as David Hawkins and Philip Borel learned in September, the private equity industry needs it more than ever
10 min read · 15 January 2013
The decision to upgrade Turkey’s local currency credit rating to investment grade comes at a good time for a market that’s full of optimism
2 min read · 15 January 2013
KKR’s newly raised $1bn mezzanine fund is an illustration of how popular this area has become with limited partners, who are increasingly attracted by its risk/reward profile
2 min read · 15 January 2013
A painful debt hangover continues to hamper Spain’s and Portugal’s economic recovery, not to mention the banks’ willingness to lend. But the turbulence is also throwing up opportunities from distressed sellers and previously reluctant family-owned companies, reports Nicholas Donato
8 min read · 15 January 2013
