TPG-controlled XOJET has secured nearly $2.5bn in debt and equity as it goes head-to-head with Warren Buffet-backed NetJets.
7 min read · 12 January 2013
Editor's letter 2008-08-01 Staff Writer Looking back 12 months to the July/August 2007 issue of <italic>Private Equity International</italic> (where did the time go?), it doesn't take a genius to work out that the main preoccupation of private equity at that time was its image. Our pages recorded
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Just months after its Euronext-traded Carlyle Capital fund folded, the private equity firm is shutting down an affiliated hedge fund. It backed away from its previous hedge fund strategy, a fund of hedge funds, in 2003.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
German department store chain Hertie is on the brink of collapse after failing to raise cash in crisis talks with banks over the past several weeks.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
MBK Partners is set to invest ¥7bn in Tasaki Shinju to help strengthen the company's domestic market position and expand its overseas operations. This will be the firm's second deal in Japan.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
MBK Partners is set to invest ¥7bn in Tasaki Shinju to help strengthen the company's domestic market position and expand its overseas operations. This will be the firm's second deal in Japan.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The former European Acquisition Capital partner joins Palamon to focus on the UK.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The French alternatives firm has smashed its initial fundraising target of €300m against a difficult market backdrop, a week after selling a stake in the management company to Spanish firm N+1.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Receivers have been appointed at two further Dawnay Day companies while Peter Klimt resigns as non executive director of London-listed Dawnay, Day Treveria and another property company taken public by the group severs its links.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
A year after registering for a $1.25bn IPO, Henry Kravis has unveiled his firm's revised plan for a public float, which includes taking over KKR Private Equity Investors and which values the combined firm at up to an estimated $18bn.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
