InterMedia Advisors, the private equity partnership established by long-time media executive Leo Hindery Jr., has held an interim close on its inaugural fund, a $1.5bn targeted vehicle.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Investcorp has agreed to take France-based parts distributor Autodistribution off the hands of Goldman Sachs, which gained control of the company after it went into receivership.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
As private equity firms increasingly invest in businesses with valuable real estate assets, the sale-leaseback is becoming an increasingly handy—and popular—financing tool. By Aaron Lovell
8 min read · 12 January 2013
For the past 40 years, Sam Zell has been one of the biggest and most successful players in the US real estate market. Always opinionated, never boring, Zell recently sat down with PERE to discuss his views on the global real estate market, his unconventional holiday gifts and why he likes Libya and Brazil. By Paul Fruchbom
10 min read · 12 January 2013
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
