Investors in private equity funds should be happy about financial engineering but for two facts: everybody's doing it, and it's headed for a dry spell. David Snow reports.
9 min read · 12 January 2013
The men behind Phillips-Van Heusen and Staples are raising a fund.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
Yet another reason to be envious of Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers – he's published a pot-boiler.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Former DLJ head Thompson Dean has notched his first deal for Avista Capital Partners, the DLJ spinout launched by Dean and other CSFB veterans earlier this year.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
New York-based Angelo, Gordon & Co. has held an interim close of $252m for its third private equity fund. The firm is targeting $300m.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Texas Pacific Group is to sell the majority of its stake in the Italian bike firm to European private equity firm InvestIndustrial.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
GSC Partners and Tishman Speyer have launched a Chinese real estate joint venture, marking GSC’s first move into real estate.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Peter Bacon has reportedly left Credit Suisse First Boston to join the hedge fund set up by his former boss Bennett Goodman.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
As an established presence in emerging markets, CDC-backed energy investor Globeleq is now in position to pursue its mandate: developing greenfield projects. Globeleq CEO Robert Hart shares his insights on approaching energy investments in emerging markets. By Judy Kuan.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
The Santa Monica-based venture group has partnered with three principals to launch its debut fund, focused on the US emerging domestic market.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
