Despite being targeted at stock markets with apparently voracious investor appetite, some recent European private equity-backed new issues have been forced into sharply lowering their price expectations. Andy Thomson looks at what's sparking investor resistance.
9 min read · 12 January 2013
How do you steer an LP super tanker through the sometimes choppy waters of global private equity? In October,Wim Borgdorff, head of fund investment at AlpInvest Partners, spoke to Philip Borel about the challenges facing Europe's largest limited partner.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Apollo and Texas Pacific face excruciating regulatory approvals in their $15.5bn buyout bid for Harrah's.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
FIRST ROUND 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Here's a tip for the GP who needs to close a deal in a timely manner – be pregnant. This pressure tactic worked brilliantly for Raquel Vargas Palmer, a principal at New York-based distressed investor KPS Special Situations Fund. Palmer, who led the firm in its turnaround a
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Lawton Fitt, who became the first female partner in Goldman Sachs’ equity division in 1994, has been hired by distressed-investment firm GSC Partners as a senior advisor and as a member of the firm’s board of advisors.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The affiliate of publicly traded buyout firm American Capital will expand its European franchise beyond its initial London and Paris footholds.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The Dallas-based firm has acquired B-Line, which purchases and services bankrupt consumer receivables.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The private equity real estate firm has signed a pre-let with Zurich Italia in what has been billed as the most important leasing transaction in Italy in the last five years.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The fourth deal of the year for the Italian mid-market firm takes them closer to launching fundraising as its current fund is 80 percent committed.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Ripplewood Holdings, a US private equity firm, and Videoncon Industries, an Indian strategic partner, have won the race to acquire Korea’s Daewoo Electronics in a transaction worth a reported $700 million.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
