CDO managers are struggling to keep up with demand from investors, but new product is difficult to assemble, as the markets are slow to supply the quality assets needed to collateralise. Robin Burnett reports.
9 min read · 11 January 2013
When do private equity and property fit together? A growing number of dedicated European real estate private equity funds are out to prove to investors in Europe that opportunistic property investment fits the private equity model well. Philip Borel takes a look.
10 min read · 11 January 2013
US private equity firms have had a difficult time breaking into the “mass-affluent” market. David Snow explains why.
5 min read · 11 January 2013
Recent issues by Britax and Sanitec reveal that issuers can secure useful financing terms via high yield structures with non-call components.
3 min read · 11 January 2013
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
The Italian bank’s Mediocredito Centrale merchant banking unit is to set up two new private equity funds for retail and institutional investors.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
While many practitioners view the non-disclosure agreement as a formality, there are in fact a variety of issues which should be considered before signing or sending out an NDA.
6 min read · 11 January 2013
PM & Partners, Athena and Prudentia have backed the E20m management buyout of Venice-based IT services firm AIVE.
2 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
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered his budget for the coming year, including the anticipated reduction of capital gains tax on business assets to 10 per cent.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
